The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 38
Old as I am, I can turn a key still."
Who acts: I · What happens: turn · To what, where: key
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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turn | amod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 am | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 am | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 am | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | aux |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 key | det |
| 10 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 turn | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | can | I | a key | still | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent key=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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