The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 170
Did they never teach you that 'we must not ask for all we see'?
Who acts: Edmund, that, we · What happens: do, not teach, not ask, see · To what, where: you, all
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 (Edmund, that, we), 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 teach | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 teach | advmod |
| 4 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 teach | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 ask | advmod |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 teach | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 ask | obj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 all | punct |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not teach speech: other | present | Edmund | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not ask speech: ask | must | that | all | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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