The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 124
And your helpless exile shall have the Princess--if he can catch her.
Who acts: helpless exile, Tom · What happens: have, catch · To what, where: Princess
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 (helpless exile, Tom), 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 | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 exile | nmod:poss |
| 3 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 exile | amod |
| 4 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 catch | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 catch | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 catch | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 catch | aux |
| 13 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 catch | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | your helpless exile | the Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 2 | catch a condition, not said to happen | can | Tom | Princess | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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