The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 88
"If you had known as much as I do," Elfin went on, "you might have saved your pack."
Who acts: Prince, Elfin, you · What happens: know, do, go on, save · To what, where: you, pack
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 (Prince, Elfin, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 known | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 went | advcl |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 known | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 much | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Elfin | punct |
| 13 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saved | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 saved | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 saved | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 saved | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 saved | aux |
| 21 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 went | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pack | nmod:poss |
| 23 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saved | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | the Prince = prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go on | past | Elfin | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | save in a quote | might · perfect | you | your pack | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme |
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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