The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 159
Come, let's kiss and be friends."
Who acts: you, 's · What happens: come, let, kiss, be · To what, where: 's, friends
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, 's), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 friends | cc |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 friends | cop |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kiss | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kiss | infinitive | 's not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | 's not said here | friends | 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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