The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 54

I have to stir it seven times round with my tail once in a hundred years to keep it alight, and my watch must have been wrong.

Who acts: I, watch · What happens: have, stir, keep, be · To what, where: corner

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 (I, watch), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stir	mark
4	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stir	obj
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 round	obl:unmarked
8	round	round	ADV	_	4 stir	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 tail	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stir	obl
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 stir	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 years	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hundred	det
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stir	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stir	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keep	obj
20	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 keep	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wrong	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wrong	cc
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 watch	nmod:poss
24	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wrong	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 wrong	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 wrong	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 wrong	cop
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I				tree rules
2	stir	to-infinitive	I not said here	corner	year	with my tail; once, round property	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tail=Co-Patient
3	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	corner		alight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	must · perfect	my watch			wrong property	tree rules

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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