The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 296

And I hope you see now how important it is to feed your cat with bread and milk.

Who acts: I, you, it · What happens: hope, see, be, feed · To what, where: cat · 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 (I, you, it), 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	_	3 hope	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hope	nsubj
3	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hope	ccomp
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 important	advmod
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 important	advmod
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 important	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 important	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 feed	mark
12	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 important	csubj
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cat	nmod:poss
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feed	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 bread	case
16	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 milk	cc
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bread	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hope	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	it		now	important property	tree rules
4	feed	to-infinitive		your cat		with bread and milk	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient

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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