The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 143

I did so hope I should have a good night."

Who acts: I · What happens: hope, have · Speech: someone speaks here

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	4 hope	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hope	aux
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 hope	advmod
4	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hope	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 night	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hope	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past · do-support	I						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have	should	I				night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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