The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 54
And I will give you my pet elephant--and you can keep him till we're married."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, keep, marry · To what, where: pet elephant, you, Tom, we
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 give | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 elephant | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 elephant | compound |
| 8 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 keep | aux |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 married | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 married | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 married | aux:pass |
| 18 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 keep | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | my pet elephant | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient elephant=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | can | you | Tom | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry | present · passive | we | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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