The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 113
Run along, do, and get your books yourself."
Who acts: you · What happens: run along, do, get · To what, where: books
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 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | parataxis |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 books | nmod:poss |
| 9 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 get | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run along | imperative | you not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | your books | yourself obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus |
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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