The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 72
I have no doubt that you will wish to know what the Princess lived on during the long years when the dragon did the cooking.
Who acts: I, you, dragon · What happens: have, wish, know, live, do · To what, where: doubt, cooking · 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, you, dragon), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 doubt | det |
| 4 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 wish | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | aux |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 doubt | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 16 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 years | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 years | amod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lived | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 did | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dragon | det |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lived | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cooking | det |
| 25 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 did | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no doubt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish | future | you | no doubt not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | live | past | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | past | the dragon | the cooking | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality |
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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