The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 65
"Well, if you must, you must," said Nurse, "but don't tear your clothes or get your feet wet."
Who acts: Nurse · What happens: say, not tear, get · To what, where: clothes, feet · 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 (Nurse), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 must | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 must | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 must | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 must | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 must | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 must | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 must | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 tear | cc |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 tear | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 tear | advmod |
| 19 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 tear | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 get | cc |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tear | conj |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 get | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 tear | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not tear in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Nurse not said here | your clothes | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location clothes=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | Nurse not said here | your feet | wet property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus |
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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