The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 75

Earwigs in our country often get out of the way when they think you are going to walk on them.

Who acts: Earwigs, you · What happens: get out, think, go, walk · To what, where: way · 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 (Earwigs, you), 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	Earwigs	earwig	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 country	case
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 country	nmod:poss
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Earwigs	nmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 way	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 think	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 think	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 walk	mark
18	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 going	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walk	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get out	present	Earwigs in our country	the way	often property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	Earwigs = earwig			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	present · progressive	you			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	walk	to-infinitive	you not said here		on Earwigs = earwig	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory

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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