The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 256

What a pity you're not a tame one: He'd never look at you then," they said. "

Who acts: breathing, children · What happens: not be, not look, say · To what, where: tame one · 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 (breathing, children), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 one	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pity	det
3	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 one	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 one	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
11	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 look	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 look	advmod
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 look	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present		a tame one			tree rules
2	not look	would	breathing		then	at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	children = child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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