The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 93
"Well, don't the beasts ever go to sleep?"
Who acts: you, beasts · What happens: do, not go, sleep
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, beasts), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 go | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beasts | det |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 go | advmod |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | present | the beasts | ever | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | the beasts not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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