The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 130
And I should not like a little King of mine to have anything to do with his books."
Who acts: I · What happens: not like, have, do · To what, where: little King, anything
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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 like | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 King | amod |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mine | case |
| 10 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 King | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | advcl |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 anything | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 books | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 books | nmod:poss |
| 18 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | should | I | a little King of mine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | anything not said here | with King's books | vn act-114-1 «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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