The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 180
I'd give a thousand pounds to anyone who could keep that giant out of the town.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, keep · To what, where: thousand pounds, anyone
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 | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thousand | det |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pounds | nummod |
| 6 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 anyone | case |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 give | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | aux |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 giant | nsubj |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giant | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | I | thousand pounds | anyone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pound=Theme to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 2 | keep | could | giant property | vn keep-15.2 «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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