The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 117

We can't go back on our word like this.

Who acts: We, our · What happens: not go back, word · To what, where: word

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, our), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 word	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 word	nmod:poss
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 word	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go back	can	We			our word like this			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	word		our					like this	nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl

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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