The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 31

I'll be on the lookout."

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: lookout

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 (I), 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	6 lookout	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lookout	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lookout	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 lookout	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lookout	det
6	lookout	lookout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lookout	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 lookout	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	I			the lookout			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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