The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 100
What is it that, if I had known as much as you do about, I shouldn't have lost my hippopotamuses?"
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, know, do, not lose · To what, where: truth, much, hippopotamuses
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. 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), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 known | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 known | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 known | aux |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 What | advcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 known | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 much | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 lost | advmod |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 lost | aux |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hippopotamuses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hippopotamuses | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lost | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 lost | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | truth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | past · perfect | I | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you | about property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not lose | should · perfect | I | my hippopotamuses | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=Eventuality |
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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