The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 15
Now, you will remember that I told you there was one wicked person in Rotundia, and I cannot conceal from you any longer that this Complete Bad was the Princess's Uncle James.
Who acts: you, I, one wicked person, Complete Bad · What happens: remember, tell, be, not conceal · To what, where: you, Uncle James · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, I, one wicked person, Complete Bad), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 remember | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | aux |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 told | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | ccomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 person | nummod |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 person | amod |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Rotundia | case |
| 16 | Rotundia | Rotundia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 person | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 conceal | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 conceal | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 conceal | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 conceal | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 conceal | advmod |
| 22 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remember | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 conceal | obl |
| 25 | any | any | ADV | _ | 26 longer | advmod |
| 26 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 conceal | advmod |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 James | mark |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 Bad | nsubj |
| 29 | Complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Bad | amod |
| 30 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 James | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 James | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Princess | det |
| 33 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 James | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 Princess | case |
| 35 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 James | compound |
| 36 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 longer | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | future | you | now | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | past | one wicked person in Rotundia | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not conceal | can | I | from you; long property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Complete Bad | the Princess's Uncle James | 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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