The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 89
Somebody ought to do something, or we shall all be destroyed."
Who acts: Somebody · What happens: do, destroy · To what, where: something, we
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 (Somebody), 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 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 destroyed | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 destroyed | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 destroyed | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 destroyed | aux |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 destroyed | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 12 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 do | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | ought | Somebody | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | destroy | shall · passive | we | all property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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