The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 108
Wouldn't you like to be a Duchess or a Princess, or something like that?"
Who acts: you · What happens: not like, be · To what, where: Duchess
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), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 Duchess | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Duchess | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Duchess | det |
| 8 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 like | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Princess | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Duchess | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 something | cc |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 Duchess | appos |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 something | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a Duchess or a Princess | 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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