The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 22
You can employ yourself in embroidering your wedding gown.
Who acts: You · What happens: employ, embroider · To what, where: yourself, wedding gown
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), 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 employ | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 employ | aux |
| 3 | employ | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 employ | obj |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 embroidering | mark |
| 6 | embroidering | embroider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 employ | advcl |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 gown | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gown | compound |
| 9 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embroidering | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 employ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | can | You | yourself | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | embroider | gerund | You not said here | your wedding gown | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=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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