The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 105
I could make more diamonds in a day than I should wear in a year."
Who acts: I · What happens: make, wear · To what, where: more diamonds
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 (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 | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 diamonds | amod |
| 5 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 wear | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wear | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wear | aux |
| 12 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 year | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wear | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | I | more diamonds | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear | should | I | year | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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