The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 122
It had pink ribbons to tie up its sleeves, so the Queen saw at once it was a girl.
Who acts: baby, Queen · What happens: have, tie up, see, be · To what, where: pink ribbons, sleeves, girl
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 (baby, Queen), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ribbons | amod |
| 4 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tie | mark |
| 6 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 tie | compound:prt |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tie | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 saw | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 girl | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 girl | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 girl | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | baby | pink ribbons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribbon=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tie up | to-infinitive | baby not said here | baby's sleeves | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeve=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | baby | a girl | tree rules |
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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