The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 16

Then the collector had to own that he wanted the pin to stick through the great Arctic moth, "a magnificent specimen," he added, "which I am most anxious to preserve."

Who acts: collector, pin · What happens: have, own, want, stick, add, be · To what, where: pin, great Arctic moth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (collector, pin), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 collector	det
3	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 own	mark
6	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wanted	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 own	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pin	det
11	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stick	mark
13	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
14	through	through	ADP	_	18 moth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moth	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 moth	amod
17	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 moth	amod
18	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stick	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 specimen	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 specimen	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 specimen	det
22	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 specimen	amod
23	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 moth	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 added	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 added	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 added	nsubj
27	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stick	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 anxious	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 anxious	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 anxious	nsubj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 anxious	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 anxious	cop
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 anxious	advmod
34	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 added	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 preserve	mark
36	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 anxious	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the collector			then		tree rules
2	own	to-infinitive	the collector not said here					tree rules
3	want	past	collector	the pin				tree rules
4	stick not said to happen	to-infinitive	the pin not said here		the great Arctic moth and a magnificent specimen			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through moth=Destination
5	add speech: assert	past	collector					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is in a quote	present					anxious property	tree rules
7	preserve in a quote	to-infinitive						vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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