The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 57

But he was very, very wise--he could not have been wiser if he had been a mile high.

Who acts: Tom · What happens: be, not be

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 (Tom), 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	_	7 wise	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wise	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wise	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	7 wise	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wise	punct
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 wise	advmod
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 wiser	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wiser	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wiser	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 wiser	advmod
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 wiser	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 wiser	cop
14	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 wise	conj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 high	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 high	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 high	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 high	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mile	det
20	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 high	obl:unmarked
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wiser	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tom	wise property	tree rules
2	not is	could · perfect	Tom	wise property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Tom	a mile obl:unmarked; high 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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