The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 105
Almost with his last breath he sent the crown to be tinned--and he never lived to pay the tinsmith's bill."
Who acts: death, tinsmith · What happens: send, tin, not live, pay, bill · To what, where: crown, bill
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, tinsmith), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 sent | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 breath | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 breath | nmod:poss |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 breath | amod |
| 5 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crown | det |
| 9 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tinned | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tinned | aux:pass |
| 12 | tinned | tin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sent | advcl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lived | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 lived | advmod |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pay | mark |
| 19 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lived | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tinsmith | det |
| 21 | tinsmith | tinsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bill | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 tinsmith | case |
| 23 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pay | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | death | the crown | with death's last breath; almost property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 2 | tin | to-infinitive · passive | death not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme» | |||||
| 3 | not live | past | death | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | death not said here | the tinsmith's bill | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset | ||||
| 5 | bill | the tinsmith | nom bill «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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