The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 119

"I don't know that you can kill him," said Elfin, "but you can take him away if you've brought anything to put him in.

Who acts: Elfin, you · What happens: not know, kill, say, take away, bring, put in · To what, where: kingdom, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Elfin, 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 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 kill	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 kill	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kill	aux
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kill	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Elfin	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Elfin	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 take	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	20 take	advmod
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 brought	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 brought	nsubj
25	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 brought	aux
26	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 take	advcl
27	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 brought	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 put	mark
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 anything	acl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	29 put	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	Elfin				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	kill in a quote	can	you	kingdom			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Elfin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take away in a quote	can	you	kingdom		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect	you	anything			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
6	put in in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything not said here	kingdom		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

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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