The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 121
It's only a squib one of the boys gave me, if that's any good."
Who acts: work, squib, that · What happens: be, give · To what, where: squib, me
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 (work, squib, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 squib | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 squib | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 squib | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 squib | det |
| 5 | squib | squib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 squib | flat |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 boys | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boys | det |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 good | mark |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 good | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 good | cop |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 good | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gave | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | work | a squib | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | a squib | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | that | good property | tree rules |
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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