The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 179
But now he may keep his kingdom, half and whole, if I may keep what I have."
Who acts: shame, I · What happens: keep, have · To what, where: kingdom
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 (shame, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 keep | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 keep | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | aux |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 half | punct |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 kingdom | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whole | cc |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kingdom | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 keep | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 have | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | may | shame | shame's kingdom and half | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep a condition, not said to happen | may | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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