The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 112
You don't suppose you've lost the use of your legs with just being a King?
Who acts: You · What happens: not suppose, lose, be, use · To what, where: use, legs · 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), 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 | 4 suppose | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suppose | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 suppose | advmod |
| 4 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 use | det |
| 9 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 legs | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 use | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 King | advmod |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 King | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suppose | present · do-support | You | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lose | present · perfect | you | the use of your legs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | with a King | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | use | your legs | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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