The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 165

"I beg your pardon," it said at last, "but I am always accustomed to having a little basin of fire as soon as I get up, and I feel rather faint.

Who acts: pardon, your · What happens: beg, say, accustom, have, get up, feel · To what, where: pardon, little basin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pardon, your), 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	_	3 beg	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beg	nsubj
3	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pardon	nmod:poss
5	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beg	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 last	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 last	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 accustomed	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 accustomed	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 accustomed	aux:pass
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 accustomed	advmod
18	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
19	to	to	SCONJ	_	20 having	mark
20	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 accustomed	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 basin	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 basin	amod
23	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 having	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 fire	case
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 basin	nmod
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 soon	advmod
27	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 having	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 get	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 get	nsubj
30	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 soon	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 get	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 feel	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 feel	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 feel	nsubj
35	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 accustomed	advcl
36	rather	rather	ADV	_	37 faint	advmod
37	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 feel	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request in a quote	present	pardon	your pardon		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	pardon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	accustom in a quote	present · passive		pardon	always property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	gerund		a little basin of fire	soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basin=Patient
5	get up in a quote	present	pardon			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	feel in a quote	present	pardon		faint property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	pardon in a quote		your			nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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