The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 18
The baby could make up for its bad nights during the day if it liked, but the poor mother couldn't.
Who acts: baby, matter · What happens: make up, like
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 (baby, matter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 make | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 nights | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nights | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nights | amod |
| 9 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obl |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obl |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 liked | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 liked | nsubj |
| 15 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 could | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 could | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mother | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mother | amod |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 could | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | could | the baby | day; night | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen | past | matter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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