The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 278
And he said, "I don't know how I could ever have liked eating anything but bread and milk.
Who acts: Dragon · What happens: say, not know, like, eat · To what, where: anything · 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 (Dragon), 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 liked | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 liked | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 liked | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 liked | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 liked | aux |
| 15 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 know | advcl |
| 16 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 liked | xcomp |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 eating | obj |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 bread | cc |
| 19 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 anything | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 milk | cc |
| 21 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 anything | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | could · perfect | Dragon | ever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | Dragon not said here | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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