The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 30
But, if I do, you will have to be turned to stone, and to stay so till the spell is taken off the child."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: do, have, turn, stay, take off · To what, where: stone, spell
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 turned | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 turned | aux:pass |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 have | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stay | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stay | mark |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 stay | advmod |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 taken | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spell | det |
| 22 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 stay | advcl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 child | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 child | det |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: to stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stay | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take off | present · passive | the spell | off the child | 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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