The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 84
He knew that he must certainly catch fire in another minute unless he could get under a tree.
Who acts: Horse · What happens: know, catch, get · To what, where: fire, tree · 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 (Horse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 catch | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 catch | aux |
| 6 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 catch | advmod |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 minute | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 minute | det |
| 11 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | obl |
| 12 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 catch | advcl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | catch | must | Horse | fire | minute | certainly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | Horse | a tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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