The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 135
And don't forget you've promised to take care of that baby.
Who acts: you · What happens: not forget, promise, take · To what, where: care · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 forget | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 forget | advmod |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 promised | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 promised | aux |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 forget | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 promised | xcomp |
| 10 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 baby | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 baby | det |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | imperative · do-support | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present · perfect | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | care | of that baby | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of baby=Initial_Location |
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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