The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 100
It's all right to touch--but don't you go putting it into your mouth.
Who acts: It, you · What happens: be, touch, not go, put · To what, where: poison, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 touch | mark |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | xcomp |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | conj |
| 13 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 go | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 putting | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 mouth | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 putting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not go | infinitive · do-support | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | put | gerund | you not said here | poison | your mouth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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