The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 106
You'll have plenty of time to be unhappy when I'm not with you.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: have, be, not be · To what, where: plenty
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plenty | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 unhappy | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 unhappy | cop |
| 9 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | acl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 you | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 you | nsubj |
| 12 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 you | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 you | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 unhappy | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | You | plenty of time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | You not said here | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | I | with you | 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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