The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 96
I don't care if he does, you silly Prince."
Who acts: I, Elfin · What happens: not care, do · To what, where: silly Prince
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, Elfin), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 care | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 care | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 care | advmod |
| 4 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 does | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 does | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 care | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Prince | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 Prince | nsubj |
| 10 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Prince | amod |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 care | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 care | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | present · do-support | I | silly Prince | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | Elfin | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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