The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 64
So he gave the Queen the witch's address, and the Queen called on her, though she was very frightened and did not like it at all.
Who acts: King, Queen, witch · What happens: give, call, be, not like, address · To what, where: address, Queen, all · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, Queen, witch), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 address | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 witch | case |
| 9 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | nsubj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 frightened | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 frightened | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 frightened | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 frightened | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 frightened | advmod |
| 22 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 like | cc |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 like | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 like | advmod |
| 26 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 like | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 like | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | King | the witch's address | the Queen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient address=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the Queen | on profession | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Queen | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not like | past · do-support | King not said here | address | all | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 5 | address | the witch | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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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