The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 109
"There is one thing I should rather like," said the witch, "but it's hard to get in my trade."
Who acts: one thing, witch, my · What happens: be, like, say, get, trade · To what, where: one thing, trade · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one thing, witch, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thing | nummod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 like | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | aux |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 9 like | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 hard | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hard | expl |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hard | cop |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hard | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 trade | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 trade | nmod:poss |
| 25 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hard | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | one thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | should | the witch = witch | one thing not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the witch not said here | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | the witch not said here | my trade | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | trade in a quote | my | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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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