The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 66

As soon as it's light I'll go and see."

Who acts: matter, I · What happens: be, go, see

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 (matter, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 go	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 light	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 light	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 light	cop
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	matter	as light	tree rules
2	go	future	I	soon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	I not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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