The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 114
You've given me the baby--and the baby shall love you too."
Who acts: You, baby · What happens: give, love · To what, where: baby, me, you
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, baby), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 given | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 love | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 baby | det |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 love | aux |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 love | obj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 love | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | You | the baby | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient baby=Theme | |||
| 2 | love | shall | the baby | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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