The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 16

If it were bigger, and if I didn't know that there have been no fabulous monsters for quite a long time now, I should almost think it was a dragon."

Who acts: hedge, I, fabulous monsters · What happens: be, not know, think · To what, where: dragon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hedge, I, fabulous monsters), 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	_	4 bigger	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bigger	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 think	cc
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 think	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 been	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 been	expl
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 been	aux
15	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 know	ccomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 monsters	det
17	fabulous	fabulous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 monsters	amod
18	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 been	nsubj
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 time	case
20	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	23 time	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 monsters	nmod
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 been	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 think	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 think	aux
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	29 think	advmod
29	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bigger	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dragon	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dragon	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dragon	det
33	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 think	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bigger	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bigger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	hedge				big property	tree rules
2	not know a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	present · perfect	no fabulous monsters for quite long time		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	should	I				almost property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	hedge	a dragon				tree rules

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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