The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 18

"I don't think you're likely to find out anything that none of the wise men in the whole world have thought of all these thousands of years," said Granny.

Who acts: I, you, Granny · What happens: not think, be, find out, think, say · To what, where: anything, none · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, you, Granny), 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	_	5 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 likely	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 likely	cop
8	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 think	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 likely	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 find	compound:prt
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 find	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 thought	obj
14	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 thought	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 men	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 men	det
17	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 none	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 world	amod
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 men	nmod
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thought	aux
24	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 anything	acl:relcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 thousands	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 thousands	det:predet
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 thousands	det
28	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 thought	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 years	case
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 thousands	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	Granny	Granny	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	you		likely property	tree rules
3	find out in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
4	think speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		none	of all thousands of years	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme that=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	past	Granny			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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