The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 107
We have but one Princess, but we give her freely--do we not, my child?"
Who acts: We · What happens: have, give, not do · To what, where: Princess, we
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 Princess | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Princess | nummod |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 9 give | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | conj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 child | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 child | nmod:poss |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 child | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | present | we | Princess | freely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | not do | present | we not said here | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |
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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