The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 157
How do you know what might have been on the next page--a snake or a worm, or a centipede or a revolutionist, or something like that."
Who acts: you · What happens: know, have, be · To what, where: next page
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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 know | ccomp |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 might | xcomp |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 page | cop |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 page | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 page | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 page | amod |
| 12 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 snake | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 snake | det |
| 15 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 page | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 worm | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 worm | det |
| 18 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 page | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 centipede | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 centipede | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 centipede | det |
| 22 | centipede | centipede | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 worm | appos |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 revolutionist | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 revolutionist | det |
| 25 | revolutionist | revolutionist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 centipede | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 something | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 something | cc |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 centipede | conj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 something | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | infinitive | you not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | participle | the next page and a snake or a worm | tree rules |
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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