The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 106
I should like," he said, "to live somewhere where Dragons can't get at me."
Who acts: I, Horse, Dragons · What happens: like, say, live, not get · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Horse, Dragons), 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 | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 get | advmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 get | advmod |
| 14 | Dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 get | nsubj |
| 15 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 get | advmod |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 live | advcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not get | can | Dragons | at me; somewhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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