The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 101

I shouldn't like to see any harm come to a nice-looking gentleman like you."

Who acts: I, harm · What happens: not like, see, come, look · To what, where: harm

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, harm), 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	4 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 harm	det
8	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	15 gentleman	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 gentleman	det
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 looking	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 nice	punct
14	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 gentleman	amod
15	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 come	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	any harm		tree rules
3	come	infinitive	any harm not said here		to a looking gentleman; like you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gentleman=Initial_Location
4	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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