The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 74
Just you look where the fire burnt my hand."
Who acts: you, fire · What happens: look, burnt · To what, where: hand
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, fire), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 burnt | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burnt | nsubj |
| 7 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burnt | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | burnt | past | the fire | my hand | tree rules |
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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