The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 76
They too have kind hearts, and they would not like you to be sorry afterward.
Who acts: Earwigs · What happens: have, not like, be · To what, where: kind hearts, you
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hearts | amod |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 like | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 like | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 like | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 like | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sorry | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sorry | cop |
| 15 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 like | xcomp |
| 16 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 15 sorry | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Earwigs = earwig | kind hearts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not like | would | Earwigs = earwig | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | Earwigs = earwig not said here | afterward, sorry 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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