The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 38
And now for just a little natural history, so that we may not feel that we are quite wasting our time.
Who acts: we · What happens: not feel, waste
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 (we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 history | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 history | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 history | mark |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 history | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 history | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 history | amod |
| 7 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 history | amod |
| 8 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 feel | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 feel | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 feel | advmod |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 history | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 wasting | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wasting | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wasting | aux |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 wasting | advmod |
| 20 | wasting | waste | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 feel | advcl |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 time | nmod:poss |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wasting | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 history | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | may | we | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | waste | present · progressive | we | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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