The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 80
No, never mind about changing your suit; the Royal robes will cover all that up."
Who acts: you, Royal robes · What happens: not mind, change, cover up · To what, where: suit, that
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, Royal robes), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 mind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 mind | advmod |
| 4 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 changing | mark |
| 6 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 mind | advcl |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 suit | nmod:poss |
| 8 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changing | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 cover | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 robes | det |
| 11 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 robes | compound |
| 12 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cover | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cover | aux |
| 14 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mind | advcl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 that | det:predet |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 cover | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 cover | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | change | gerund | you not said here | your suit | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cover up | future | the Royal robes | that | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Destination |
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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