The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 233
"I wouldn't for a kingdom," cried Elfin, stroking the pig as best he could with his elbow.
Who acts: kingdom · What happens: cry, stroke · To what, where: pig
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 (kingdom), 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 kingdom | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 kingdom | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 kingdom | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 kingdom | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kingdom | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 kingdom | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stroking | punct |
| 13 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pig | det |
| 15 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stroking | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 best | case |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 stroking | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 best | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 elbow | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 22 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 best | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | a kingdom | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stroke | gerund | a kingdom not said here | the pig | as best | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Experiencer |
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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