The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 263
We shouldn't like to risk losing such a dear, pretty pet."
Who acts: We · What happens: not like, risk, lose · To what, where: dear pretty pet
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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur 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 risk | mark |
| 6 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 risk | xcomp |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 pet | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pet | det |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pet | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dear | punct |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pet | amod |
| 13 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 losing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | should | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | risk not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | We not said here | such dear pretty pet | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Eventuality |
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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