The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 111
I haven't half enough rivets in the shop.
Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: enough rivets, shop
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), 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 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 enough | advmod |
| 4 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 enough | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rivets | amod |
| 6 | rivets | rivet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 shop | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shop | det |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rivets | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | enough rivets | the shop | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rivet=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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