The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 248

There's one other charm that cures dragon burns, though; but I'd rather be burnt black all over than marry anyone but you, my dear, my pretty."

Who acts: one other charm · What happens: be, cure, burnt, marry · To what, where: dragon burns, I, anyone

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 (one other charm), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 charm	nummod
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 charm	amod
5	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 's	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cures	nsubj
7	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 charm	acl:relcl
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burns	compound
9	burns	burn	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cures	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	ADV	_	7 cures	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 burnt	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 burnt	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 burnt	nsubj
15	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 burnt	aux
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	18 burnt	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 burnt	aux:pass
18	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 's	conj
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 burnt	xcomp
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 over	advmod
21	over	over	ADV	_	18 burnt	advmod
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 marry	mark
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 burnt	advcl
24	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 marry	obj
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 dear	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 dear	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dear	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dear	nmod:poss
29	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 burnt	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pretty	punct
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pretty	nmod:poss
32	pretty	pretty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burnt	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 's	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 's	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	one other charm		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cure	present	one other charm	dragon burns		though property	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer burn=Source
3	burnt	would · passive		I		my pretty obl; black, over property	tree rules
4	marry	infinitive		anyone			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient

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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