The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 183
You'd better go down and begin your breakfast, hadn't you?"
Who acts: You · What happens: go down, begin, have · To what, where: breakfast, you
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), 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 | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 begin | cc |
| 7 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 begin | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 you | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 had | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | would | You | down, well property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | begin | infinitive | You not said here | your breakfast | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | past | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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