The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 120

"I haven't any fire_arms_," said George, "but I have a fire_work_.

Who acts: George · What happens: not have, say, have · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 have	advmod
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 arms	punct
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fire	appos
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 arms	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 George	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 George	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 work	punct
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obl
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 have	discourse
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	present	George	any fire		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	George			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	George	a fire	work obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient

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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