The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 116

I use him to light my fire with."

Who acts: I, my · What happens: use, light, fire · To what, where: kingdom, fire

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 use	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 light	mark
5	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fire	nmod:poss
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	5 light	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	present	I	kingdom	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	light	to-infinitive	I not said here	my fire	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	fire		my		nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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