The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 30

I am afraid all this is very dull, but you know geography is never quite lively, and after all, I must give you a little information even in a fairy tale--like the powder in jam.

Who acts: I, this, you, geography · What happens: be, know, not be, give · To what, where: little information, you, fairy tale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, this, you, geography), 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	3 afraid	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 dull	det:predet
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 dull	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dull	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 dull	advmod
8	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 afraid	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 know	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
12	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	parataxis
13	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lively	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lively	cop
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 lively	advmod
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 lively	advmod
17	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 know	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 give	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 information	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 information	amod
29	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
30	even	even	ADV	_	34 tale	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 tale	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tale	det
33	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tale	compound
34	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obl
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 powder	punct
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 powder	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 powder	det
38	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 jam	case
40	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 powder	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					afraid property	tree rules
2	is	present	this					dull property	tree rules
3	know	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is	present	geography					lively property	tree rules
5	give	must	I	a little information	you	a fairy tale	after all	like the powder in jam	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient information=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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