The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 116

I am only too grateful for this opportunity of showing my sense of your manly conduct about the firework!"

Who acts: I, opportunity, my, your · What happens: be, show, sense, conduct · To what, where: sense, manly conduct

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, opportunity, my, your), 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	5 grateful	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grateful	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 grateful	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 grateful	advmod
5	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 opportunity	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 opportunity	det
8	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grateful	obl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 showing	mark
10	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 opportunity	acl
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sense	nmod:poss
12	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 showing	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 conduct	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 conduct	nmod:poss
15	manly	manly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 conduct	amod
16	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sense	nmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 firework	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 firework	det
19	firework	firework	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 conduct	nmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 grateful	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 grateful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		for this opportunity; grateful property	tree rules
2	show	gerund	this opportunity not said here	my sense of your manly conduct about the firework		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sense=Recipient
3	sense		my	your manly conduct about the firework		nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
4	conduct		your		about the firework	nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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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