The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 92
How glad I am that I gave you Fido.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, give · To what, where: Fido
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 (I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 glad | advmod |
| 2 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 glad | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 gave | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 glad | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | Fido | Fido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | iobj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | I | Fido | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient fido=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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