The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 103

Any little thing you fancy--would you like a country, or a sack of jewels?"

Who acts: you, little thing · What happens: fancy, like · To what, where: little thing, country

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little thing), 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	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 thing	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	nsubj:outer
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fancy	nsubj
5	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 like	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
9	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sack	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 sack	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sack	det
15	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 jewels	case
17	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sack	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	present	you	any little thing not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	like	would	any little thing	a country				a sack of jewels obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot country=Theme

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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