The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 14
I only wish I were half as sure that he wouldn't hurt you."
Who acts: I, Nigel · What happens: wish, be, not hurt · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Nigel), 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 | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 wish | advmod |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | cop |
| 6 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 sure | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 sure | advmod |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 hurt | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hurt | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurt | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 hurt | advmod |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 hurt | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | past | I | half, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not hurt | would | Nigel | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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