The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 58
Could you put that to rights?"
Who acts: you · What happens: put · To what, where: that
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), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 rights | case |
| 6 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | could | you | that | to rights | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent that=Goal |
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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