The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 129

After I've been down you can go, and if you keep your head the boy will be all right."

Who acts: I, you, boy · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: head

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 (I, you, boy), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	8 go	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 go	cop
5	down	down	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 right	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 right	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 keep	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
13	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	advcl
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 right	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 right	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 right	cop
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 right	advmod
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	can · present · perfect	I		go property	tree rules
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your head		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	is	future	the boy		all, right property	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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