The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 39

In doing this for you I lose all my witch's powers, and when I say the spell that changes you to stone, I shall change with you, and if ever we come out of the stone, I shall be a witch no more, but only a happy old woman."

Who acts: I, spell, we · What happens: do, lose, say, change, come out, be · To what, where: this, powers, spell, you, stone, witch · Speech: someone speaks here

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, spell, we), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 doing	mark
2	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lose	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 doing	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 doing	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 lose	nsubj
7	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 witch	det:predet
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 witch	nmod:poss
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 powers	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 witch	case
12	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lose	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 change	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 change	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 say	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 change	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spell	det
19	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 changes	nsubj
21	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 spell	acl:relcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 changes	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 stone	case
24	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 changes	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 change	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 change	aux
28	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lose	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 change	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 come	cc
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 ever	mark
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 come	advmod
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 come	nsubj
36	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lose	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 stone	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 stone	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stone	det
40	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 witch	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 witch	nsubj
43	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 witch	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 witch	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 witch	det
46	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
47	no	no	ADV	_	48 more	advmod
48	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	46 witch	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 woman	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 woman	cc
51	only	only	ADV	_	55 woman	advmod
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 woman	det
53	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 woman	amod
54	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 woman	amod
55	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	parataxis
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	55 woman	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	I not said here	this		for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	lose	present	I	my witch's powers			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present	I	the spell			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent spell=Topic
4	change	present	the spell	you		to stone	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	change	shall	I			with you	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come out	present	we	the stone	ever		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stone=Result
7	is a	shall	I	a witch			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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