The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 119

Some of them even tried to drop a curtsy to her as she went by, though that is not easy when you are hanging wrong way up by your tail.

Who acts: Some, Queen, that, you · What happens: try, drop, go by, not be, hang up · To what, where: curtsy, Queen, wrong way

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, Queen, that, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 tried	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Some	nmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 tried	advmod
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drop	mark
7	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 curtsy	det
9	curtsy	curtsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drop	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drop	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drop	advcl
15	by	by	ADP	_	14 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 easy	punct
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 easy	mark
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 easy	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 easy	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 easy	advmod
21	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tried	parataxis
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 hanging	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 hanging	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hanging	aux
25	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 easy	parataxis
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hanging	obl:unmarked
28	up	up	ADV	_	25 hanging	advmod
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 tail	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tail	nmod:poss
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hanging	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	Some				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	drop not said to happen	to-infinitive	Some not said here	a curtsy	Queen		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent curtsy=Theme to she=Destination
3	go by	past	Queen				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	present	that			easy property	tree rules
5	hang up	present · progressive	you	wrong way		by your tail	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tail=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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