The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 8
And he will have to know a very great deal more magic than I shall ever care to teach him."
Who acts: husband, I · What happens: have, know, care, teach · To what, where: great deal, husband
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 (husband, 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 | _ | 4 have | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 deal | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 great | advmod |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deal | amod |
| 10 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 magic | amod |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deal | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 care | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 care | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 care | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 care | advmod |
| 17 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 teach | mark |
| 19 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 care | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 teach | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | husband not said here | a great deal more magic | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | care | shall | I | ever | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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