The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 128
I'll bet a crown--my crown," he said, "you never even thought to tell the witch what kind you wanted!
Who acts: I, boy, you, witch, my · What happens: bet, say, not think, tell, want, crown · To what, where: crown, kind · 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 (I, boy, you, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bet | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bet | aux |
| 3 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bet | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 crown | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 crown | nmod:poss |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bet | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 thought | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 thought | advmod |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tell | mark |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thought | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 23 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 24 kind | det |
| 24 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 wanted | nsubj |
| 26 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 kind | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 bet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | future | I | a crown | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | participle | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the witch | what kind | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | want | past | you | what kind not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme | ||||
| 6 | crown | my | nom crown «communication 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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