The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 70

And the gift is worthless that costs the giver nothing.

Who acts: gift, that · What happens: be, cost · To what, where: nothing

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 (gift, that), 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	_	5 worthless	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gift	det
3	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worthless	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worthless	cop
5	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 costs	nsubj
7	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worthless	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nothing	det
9	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	compound
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 costs	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worthless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the gift					worthless property	tree rules
2	cost	present	that	nothing					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value

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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