The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 121
When the Queen got home, sure enough there was the baby lying in the cradle with the Royal arms blazoned on it, crying as naturally as possible.
Who acts: Queen, baby · What happens: get, be, lie, blazon, cry · To what, where: cradle, Royal arms, baby
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 (Queen, baby), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 sure | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 baby | det |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 baby | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cradle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cradle | det |
| 16 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lying | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 arms | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 arms | det |
| 19 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 arms | compound |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cradle | nmod |
| 21 | blazoned | blazon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 arms | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 blazoned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 crying | punct |
| 25 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 lying | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 naturally | advmod |
| 27 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 25 crying | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 possible | mark |
| 29 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 naturally | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Queen | home, sure property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the baby | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the baby not said here | the cradle with the Royal arms | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location | ||||
| 4 | blazon | participle | the Royal arms not said here | baby | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | the baby not said here | naturally property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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