The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 17
And when anyone is a magician, and is also an uncle, and is named James as well, you need not expect anything nice from him.
Who acts: anyone, you · What happens: be, name, not expect · To what, where: magician, uncle, anything
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 (anyone, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:273): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 expect | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 magician | advmod |
| 3 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 magician | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 magician | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 magician | det |
| 6 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 expect | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 uncle | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 uncle | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 uncle | cop |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 uncle | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 uncle | det |
| 12 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 magician | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 named | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 named | cc |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 named | aux:pass |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 magician | conj |
| 17 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 named | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 16 named | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 expect | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 expect | nsubj |
| 22 | need | need | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 expect | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 expect | advmod |
| 24 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 expect | obj |
| 26 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 anything | amod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 expect | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | anyone | a magician and a uncle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | anyone not said here | a uncle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | present · passive | anyone not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | not expect | need | you | anything | from James | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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