The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 222

And we'll have nothing but sweet things from beginning to end."

Who acts: we · What happens: have · To what, where: nothing

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 (we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 have	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 things	cc
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nothing	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 beginning	case
10	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 things	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 end	case
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nothing	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	we	nothing			to end		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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