The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 9
I'll marry you if you like--if I have time."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: marry, like, have · To what, where: 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 marry | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 marry | aux |
| 3 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 marry | obj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 like | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marry | advcl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marry | conj |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marry | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | future | I | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | I | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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