The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 237
The dear, affectionate beasts--they all want to die for you."
Who acts: dear affectionate beasts · What happens: want, die
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 (dear affectionate beasts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beasts | det |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beasts | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dear | punct |
| 4 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beasts | amod |
| 5 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 want | nsubj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 want | advmod |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 die | mark |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 die | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the dear affectionate beasts | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dear affectionate beasts not said here | for you | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for you=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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