The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 247

But I never thought my dear pigs loved me so much as all this, and my dear too--and, of course, that only makes it more impossible.

Who acts: I, dear pigs, that · What happens: not think, love, make · To what, where: me, course · Speech: someone speaks here

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, dear pigs, that), 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	_	4 thought	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pigs	nmod:poss
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pigs	amod
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loved	nsubj
8	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 loved	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	8 loved	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 this	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 this	det:predet
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 much	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dear	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dear	cc
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dear	nmod:poss
18	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	parataxis
19	too	too	ADV	_	18 dear	advmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 makes	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 and	punct
23	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	28 makes	advmod
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 of	fixed
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 makes	nsubj
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 makes	advmod
28	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 makes	obj
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 impossible	advmod
31	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 makes	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	love	past	my dear pigs	me		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	make	present	that	course	impossible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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