The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 103
I can, but it's slow work, and it makes me very unhappy.
Who acts: I, griffin · What happens: be, make · To what, where: slow work, me
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, griffin), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 work | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 work | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 work | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 work | cc |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 work | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 work | cop |
| 7 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 work | amod |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 makes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 makes | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 makes | nsubj |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 work | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 makes | obj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 unhappy | advmod |
| 15 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 makes | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | I | slow work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | griffin | me | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product |
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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