The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 124
You see, my granny is in the town, and I can't bear to lose my granny like this."
Who acts: You, granny, I · What happens: see, be, not bear, lose · To what, where: town, granny
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, granny, I), 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 | _ | 9 town | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 granny | nmod:poss |
| 5 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 town | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 town | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bear | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bear | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bear | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bear | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 bear | advmod |
| 15 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 lose | mark |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bear | xcomp |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 granny | nmod:poss |
| 19 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lose | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 this | case |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 granny | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | my granny | the town | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not bear | can | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | lose | to-infinitive | I not said here | my granny | like this | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent granny=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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