The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 116
Each of your fifty kisses will be a spell to bring me to you.
Who acts: Each, your · What happens: be, bring, kiss · To what, where: spell, 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 (Each, your), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 spell | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 kisses | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 kisses | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 kisses | nummod |
| 5 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Each | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 spell | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 spell | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spell | det |
| 9 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 spell | acl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | Each | a spell | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | me | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | kiss | your | nom kiss «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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