The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 69
We have only one Princess, it is true; but far be it from us to display a miserly temper at such a moment.
Who acts: We, dragon · What happens: have, be, display · To what, where: one Princess, dragon, miserly temper
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, dragon), 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 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Princess | nummod |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 true | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | cop |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 display | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 display | cc |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 it | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 it | cop |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 display | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 it | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 display | mark |
| 18 | display | display | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 temper | det |
| 20 | miserly | miserly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 temper | amod |
| 21 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 display | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 moment | case |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 moment | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 moment | det |
| 25 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 display | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | one Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | dragon | one Princess not said here | true property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | dragon | from us; far property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | display | to-infinitive | dragon | a miserly temper | moment | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme temper=Reflexive |
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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