The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 135
"Why, you've only got a kingdom (and a dragon), but I've got clean hands (and five and seventy fine black pigs)."
Who acts: you, Elfin · What happens: get · To what, where: kingdom, clean hands
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 (you, Elfin), 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 | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 got | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 dragon | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dragon | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kingdom | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 dragon | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 got | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 got | conj |
| 20 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hands | amod |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 got | obj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 pigs | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pigs | cc |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 pigs | nummod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 seventy | cc |
| 26 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 five | conj |
| 27 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pigs | amod |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pigs | amod |
| 29 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hands | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 pigs | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | a kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | Elfin | clean hands | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus |
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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