The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 297

If you were to let it have nothing to eat but mice and birds it might grow larger and fiercer, and scalier and tailier, and get wings and turn into the beginning of dragons.

Who acts: you, cat, mice · What happens: let, have, eat, grow, get, turn · To what, where: cat, nothing, wings, beginning, dragons

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 (you, cat, mice), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 let	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 have	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	acl
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 grow	cc
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grow	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 birds	cc
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mice	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grow	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 grow	aux
17	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eat	conj
18	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grow	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fiercer	cc
20	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 larger	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 scalier	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scalier	cc
23	scalier	scaley	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 have	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tailier	cc
25	tailier	tailier	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 scalier	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 get	cc
28	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 let	parataxis
29	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 get	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 turn	cc
31	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 get	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 beginning	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 beginning	det
34	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 dragons	case
36	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 beginning	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	you	cat			tree rules
2	have	infinitive	cat not said here	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	cat not said here	nothing not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	might	mice and birds			large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	infinitive		wings			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wing=Stimulus
6	turn	present			into the beginning of dragons		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into beginning=Trajectory
7	begin			dragons			nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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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