The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 46
Otherwise I don't think the Rotundians could have borne with him.
Who acts: I · What happens: not think, bear · To what, where: Rotundians · 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), 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 | Otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 5 think | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rotundians | det |
| 7 | Rotundians | Rotundian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 borne | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 borne | aux |
| 10 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 think | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 borne | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | otherwise property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | could · perfect · passive | the Rotundians | with pig | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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