The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 101
You know it's the rule that the crown must be paid for by the people."
Who acts: You, rate, people · What happens: know, be, pay · To what, where: rule, crown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, rate, people), 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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rule | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rule | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rule | det |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 paid | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crown | det |
| 9 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 paid | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 paid | aux:pass |
| 12 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rule | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 paid | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 paid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | rate | the rule | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | must · passive | the people | the crown | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
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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