The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 88

"But you'd want that for riveting me.

Who acts: you · What happens: want, rivet · To what, where: that, hammer

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 (you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 want	cc
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 want	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 riveting	mark
8	riveting	rivet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 want	advcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 riveting	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	would	you	that					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
2	rivet in a quote	gerund	you not said here	My hammer = hammer					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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