The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 14

Even if you know perfectly well that you can't do your lessons, you may as well try, and sometimes you find that by some fortunate accident they really _are_ done.

Who acts: you, fortunate accident · What happens: know, not do, try, find, do · To what, where: lessons

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fortunate accident), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 know	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 know	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 do	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 try	advcl
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lessons	nmod:poss
13	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 do	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 try	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 try	aux
17	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 try	cc
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 as	fixed
19	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 find	cc
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 find	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
24	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 done	mark
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 accident	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 accident	det
28	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 accident	amod
29	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 done	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 done	nsubj
31	really	really	ADV	_	35 done	advmod
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 really	punct
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 done	aux:pass
34	_	_	ADV	_	35 done	advmod
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 find	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	you		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not do	can	you	your lessons		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality
3	try	may	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	find	present	you		sometimes property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	do	present · passive	some fortunate accident	lessons = lesson		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality

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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