The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 130
And the Queen hung her head and had to confess that she had only asked for a child.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: hang, have, confess, ask · To what, where: head
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hung | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hung | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 confess | mark |
| 10 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 asked | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | aux |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 asked | advmod |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 confess | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the Queen | Queen's head | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Queen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | confess | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect | Queen | for a child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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