The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 64
I _must_ try to see if I can't save the people."
Who acts: I · What happens: try, see, not save · To what, where: people
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 try | nsubj |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 try | aux |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | xcomp |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 save | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 save | nsubj |
| 10 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 save | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 save | advmod |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 save | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | must | I | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not save a condition, not said to happen | can | I | the people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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