The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 134
All the years of her life had never held half so much happiness as now lived in each of the moments when she held her little baby in her arms.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: not hold, live, hold · To what, where: years, each, little baby, arms
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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 years | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 held | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 years | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 held | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 held | advmod |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 held | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 happiness | advmod |
| 13 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 lived | mark |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 lived | advmod |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 held | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 lived | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 moments | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moments | det |
| 21 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 each | nmod |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 held | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 held | nsubj |
| 24 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lived | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 baby | nmod:poss |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 baby | amod |
| 27 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 held | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 arms | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 arms | nmod:poss |
| 30 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 held | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hold | past · perfect · passive | all years of Queen's life | happiness obl | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme half=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | live | past | each | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in each=Location | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | Queen | Queen's little baby | Queen's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in arm=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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