The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 25

But in case you are not a thoughtful child--and it is just possible of course that you are not--I will tell you at once what that most remarkable thing was.

Who acts: you, case · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: you

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, case), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 child	cc
2	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 child	case
3	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 in	fixed
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 child	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 child	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 child	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
8	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 possible	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 possible	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 possible	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 possible	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 possible	advmod
15	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 course	case
17	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 possible	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 tell	obj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 tell	advmod
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 child	acl:relcl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 what	case
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 what	advmod
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 tell	obl
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 thing	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 remarkable	advmod
32	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thing	amod
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	you		in a thoughtful child	tree rules
2	is	present	case		of course; possible property	tree rules
3	not is	present	you	you	at a thoughtful child; tell property	tree rules

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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