The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 64
Oh, how I wish we hadn't come; and my boots are so wet."
Who acts: I, we, boots · What happens: wish, not come, be · 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 (I, we, boots), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 wish | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 wish | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 wet | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wet | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 boots | nmod:poss |
| 13 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wet | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wet | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 wet | advmod |
| 16 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wish | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not come | past | we | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | my boots | wet 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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