The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 73
My dear, she lived on her income--and that is a thing that a great many people would like to be able to do.
Who acts: dragon, that, great many people · What happens: live, be, like, do · To what, where: income, thing
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 (dragon, that, great many people), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dear | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dear | parataxis |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 income | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 income | nmod:poss |
| 8 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thing | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 thing | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dear | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 like | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 like | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 like | aux |
| 21 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thing | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 able | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | cop |
| 24 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 like | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | dragon | dragon's income | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on income=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | like | would | a great many people | a thing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | a great many people not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | a great many people not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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