The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 185
"Five minutes ago I was a pig keeper--now I've held you in my arms I'm a Prince, though I should have to keep pigs to the end of my days."
Who acts: Sabrinetta · What happens: be, hold, have, keep · To what, where: pig keeper, you, arms, Prince, pigs
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 (Sabrinetta), 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 | _ | 9 keeper | punct |
| 2 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 keeper | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 keeper | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 keeper | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 keeper | det |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeper | compound |
| 9 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 held | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 held | nsubj |
| 13 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | aux |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 keeper | acl:relcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 held | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 held | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 Prince | nsubj |
| 20 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Prince | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 arms | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 24 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 held | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 keep | mark |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 have | xcomp |
| 30 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 keep | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 end | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 end | det |
| 33 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keep | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 days | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 days | nmod:poss |
| 36 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 end | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 keeper | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 keeper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Sabrinetta | a pig keeper | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold in a quote | present · perfect | Sabrinetta | you | my arms | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in arm=Location | ||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Sabrinetta | a Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | should | Sabrinetta | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | Sabrinetta not said here | pigs | to the end of my days | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme |
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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