The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 27
"For the sake of the twice twenty-five kisses you gave me," said the witch, "I will help you.
Who acts: you, witch · What happens: give, say, help · To what, where: five kisses, witch, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 sake | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sake | det |
| 4 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kisses | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kisses | det |
| 7 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 five | advmod |
| 8 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 five | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 twenty | punct |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 kisses | nummod |
| 11 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sake | nmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kisses | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sake | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 help | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | you | the five kisses not said here | the witch = witch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | for the sake of the five kisses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | help in a quote | future | the witch = witch | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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