The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 111
"I should like some one to love me," said the witch.
Who acts: witch · What happens: like, love, say · To what, where: one, witch · 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 (witch), 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 | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 like | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 love | mark |
| 8 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 love | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | 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 |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | should | the witch = witch | some one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the witch = witch not said here | the witch = witch | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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