The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 92
You haven't a sword, or a shield, or anything!"
Who acts: You · What happens: have · To what, where: sword
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sword | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shield | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 shield | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shield | det |
| 9 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 anything | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 anything | cc |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 shield | appos |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 anything | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 anything | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | a sword | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
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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