The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 101

You see, he had heard so many wonderful tales from him and had believed them all--and when you believe all a person's stories they ought to believe yours.

Who acts: You, shower · What happens: see, hear, believe · To what, where: many wonderful tales, tales, yours

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, shower), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 see	parataxis
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tales	amod
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tales	amod
10	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tales	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 believed	cc
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 believed	aux
15	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 heard	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 believed	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 them	nmod:unmarked
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 believe	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 believe	cc
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 believe	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 believe	nsubj
22	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	parataxis
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 person	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 person	det
25	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stories	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 person	case
27	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ought	nsubj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ought	nsubj
29	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 believe	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 believe	mark
31	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ought	xcomp
32	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 believe	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	present	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hear	past · perfect	shower	many wonderful tales	from Help	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tale=Topic from he=Source
3	believe	past · perfect	shower not said here	tales = tale		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	believe	present	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	believe	to-infinitive	you not said here	yours		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer your=Stimulus

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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