The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 63
Now, Nurse, dear, I know I'm right, so kiss me in case I never come back.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, be, kiss, not come back · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dear | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | Nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dear | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dear | parataxis |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 right | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 right | cop |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 know | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kiss | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 kiss | advmod |
| 14 | kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 kiss | obj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 come | mark |
| 17 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 in | fixed |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 come | advmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kiss | advcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kiss | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not come back | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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