The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 220
I shall never be able to take your dear hands again.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, take · To what, where: dear 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 able | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hands | amod |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | shall | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | I not said here | your dear hands | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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