The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 90

I suppose I can kill them?"

Who acts: I · What happens: suppose, kill · To what, where: kisses · 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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 suppose	nsubj
2	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 kill	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kill	aux
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 suppose	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 suppose	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	present	I						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	kill	can	I	kisses = kiss					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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