The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 138
"But I wouldn't touch his books."
Who acts: Lionel · What happens: not touch · To what, where: books
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 (Lionel), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 touch | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 touch | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 touch | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 touch | advmod |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 books | nmod:poss |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 touch | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch in a quote | would | Lionel | Lionel's books | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme book=Co-Theme |
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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