The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 16

Magicians are always bad, as you know from your fairy books, and some uncles are bad, as you see by the _Babes in the Wood_, or the _Norfolk Tragedy_, and one James at least was bad, as you have learned from your English history.

Who acts: Magicians, you, uncles, one James · What happens: be, know, see, learn · To what, where: fairy books, least, English history

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 (Magicians, you, uncles, one James), 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	Magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 know	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	parataxis
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 books	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 books	nmod:poss
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 books	compound
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 know	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bad	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bad	cc
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 uncles	det
16	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bad	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bad	cop
18	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bad	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	26 Babes	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Babes	det
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 Babes	punct
26	Babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 Wood	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Wood	det
29	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Babes	nmod
30	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 see	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Tragedy	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 Tragedy	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Tragedy	det
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 Norfolk	punct
35	Norfolk	Norfolk	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Tragedy	compound
36	Tragedy	Tragedy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bad	parataxis
37	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 Tragedy	punct
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 bad	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 bad	cc
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 James	nummod
41	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 bad	nsubj
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 least	case
43	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 bad	obl
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 bad	cop
45	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bad	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 learned	punct
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 learned	mark
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 learned	nsubj
49	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 learned	aux
50	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 bad	parataxis
51	from	from	ADP	_	54 history	case
52	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 history	nmod:poss
53	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 history	amod
54	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 learned	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Magicians		always, bad property	tree rules
2	know	present	you	your fairy books		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	some uncles		bad property	tree rules
4	see	present	you		by the Babes in the Wood	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	one James	least	bad property	tree rules
6	learn	present · perfect	you	your English history		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from history=Source

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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