The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 79
"I know you wouldn't do it on purpose, sir," said John, "but any gentleman will give a jump and a sniff if he's nipped, and one of your sniffs would be enough for me.
Who acts: John, you, gentleman, one, your · What happens: know, not do, say, give, nip, be · To what, where: case, purpose, jump, gentleman · 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 (John, you, gentleman, one), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sir | punct |
| 12 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 purpose | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 give | cc |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 gentleman | det |
| 21 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 jump | det |
| 25 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sniff | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sniff | det |
| 28 | sniff | sniff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jump | conj |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 nipped | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 nipped | nsubj |
| 31 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 nipped | aux:pass |
| 32 | nipped | nip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 give | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 enough | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 enough | cc |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 enough | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 sniffs | case |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 sniffs | nmod:poss |
| 38 | sniffs | sniff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 one | nmod |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 enough | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 enough | cop |
| 41 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | parataxis |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 enough | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | John | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | would | you | case | purpose and sir | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | John | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | any gentleman | a jump and a sniff | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme | ||||
| 5 | nip a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | gentleman | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | would | one of your sniffs | for John; enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sniff in a quote | your | nom sniff «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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