The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 143
She was eighteen, and it came to her suddenly and all in a moment that she was a grown-up, so she spoke out.
Who acts: Princess, silliness · What happens: be, come, grow up, speak out · To what, where: eighteen, Princess
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 (Princess, silliness), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eighteen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 eighteen | cop |
| 3 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 eighteen | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 moment | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 moment | cc |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 moment | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 grown | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grown | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grown | aux:pass |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 grown | det |
| 20 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 moment | acl |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 up | punct |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 grown | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spoke | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 spoke | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 spoke | nsubj |
| 26 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grown | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 spoke | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eighteen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Princess | eighteen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | silliness | Princess | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | grow up | past · passive | Princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | speak out speech: other | past | Princess | vn lecture-37.11-1 «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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