The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 15

I should have liked to preserve a specimen.

Who acts: I · What happens: like, preserve · To what, where: specimen

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	aux
4	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 preserve	mark
6	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 specimen	det
8	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preserve	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	should · perfect	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	preserve not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a specimen					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent specimen=Beneficiary

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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