The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 194

"If we let you loose you might manage to run away before he could catch you."

Who acts: we, you, giant · What happens: let, lose, manage, run away, catch · To what, where: you

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 (we, you, giant), 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	_	9 manage	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 let	mark
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 manage	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	aux
9	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 run	mark
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 manage	xcomp
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 run	advmod
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 catch	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 catch	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 catch	aux
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 run	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 catch	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 manage	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	we	you		tree rules
2	lose in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	manage in a quote	might	you			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	run away in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch in a quote	could	giant	you		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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