The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 71

For you are certain to know something if you give for seven days your whole thought to it, even though it be only the first declension, or the nine-times table, or the dates of the Norman Kings.

Who acts: you, thought, your · What happens: be, know, give, think · To what, where: something, first declension

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, thought, your), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 certain	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 certain	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 certain	cop
4	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 certain	csubj
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 know	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 give	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
10	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 know	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 days	case
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 days	nummod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	obj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 thought	nmod:poss
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thought	amod
16	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 days	nsubj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 certain	punct
20	even	even	ADV	_	27 declension	advmod
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 declension	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 declension	nsubj
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 declension	cop
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 declension	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 declension	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 declension	amod
27	declension	declension	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 certain	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 table	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 table	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 table	det
31	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 times	nummod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 nine	punct
33	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 table	compound
34	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 declension	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dates	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 dates	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dates	det
38	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 declension	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Kings	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Kings	det
41	Norman	Norman	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Kings	compound
42	Kings	King	PROPN	Number=Plur	38 dates	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 certain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			certain property	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive		something			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	give a condition, not said to happen	present	you		day		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is a	infinitive	thought	the first declension or the times table			tree rules
5	think		your			to thought	nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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