The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 126
Did you think I went to all the trouble and expense of sending you to a witch to get a girl?
Who acts: you, I, expense · What happens: think, go, send, get · To what, where: trouble, you, girl · 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 (you, I, expense), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 trouble | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trouble | det |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 expense | cc |
| 11 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trouble | conj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 sending | mark |
| 13 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 expense | acl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sending | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 witch | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sending | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sending | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | I | all trouble and expense | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to trouble=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | send | gerund | expense not said here | you | to a witch | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to witch=Destination | |||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | expense not said here | a girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=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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