The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 207
It is not you who have settled the giant, it is the dragon.
Who acts: weather · What happens: not be, settle, be · To what, where: you, dragon
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 (weather), 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 you | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 you | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 settled | aux |
| 7 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 settled | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dragon | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dragon | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dragon | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 settled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | weather | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | settle | present · perfect · passive | you | giant property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | weather | the dragon | 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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