The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 127

You knew well enough it was a boy I wanted--a boy, an heir, a Prince--to learn all my magic and my enchantments, and to rule the kingdom after me.

Who acts: You, expense, I, my · What happens: know, be, want, learn, rule, enchant · To what, where: boy, magic, kingdom · 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, expense, I, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 knew	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 boy	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	ccomp
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	acl:relcl
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boy	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heir	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 heir	det
16	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boy	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Prince	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Prince	det
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 boy	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 learn	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 learn	mark
22	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 magic	det:predet
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 magic	nmod:poss
25	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 learn	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 enchantments	cc
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 enchantments	nmod:poss
28	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 magic	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rule	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rule	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 rule	mark
32	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 learn	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kingdom	det
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rule	obj
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 rule	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	You			enough, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	expense	a boy		a boy and a heir nmod; a Prince nmod	tree rules
3	want	past	I	a boy not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
4	learn	to-infinitive	You not said here	my magic and my enchantments			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Topic
5	rule	to-infinitive	You not said here	the kingdom	after me		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
6	enchant		my				nom enchantment «feeling 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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