The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 68

We don't want any expense spared.

Who acts: We, expense · What happens: not want, spare · To what, where: expense

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 (We, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 expense	det
6	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 want	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	We	any expense					tree rules
2	spare not said to happen	participle	any expense not said here						vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=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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