The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 39
And you know how unpleasant that is, even in a private school, and in a public kingdom it is, of course, much worse.
Who acts: you, that, school · What happens: know, be · To what, where: unpleasant private school, public kingdom
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, that, school), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 know | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 unpleasant | advmod |
| 5 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 school | amod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 school | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 school | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 school | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 school | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 school | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 school | det |
| 12 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 school | amod |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 worse | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 worse | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kingdom | det |
| 18 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kingdom | amod |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 worse | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 worse | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 worse | cop |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 worse | punct |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 27 worse | advmod |
| 24 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 of | fixed |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 of | punct |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 worse | advmod |
| 27 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 know | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | a unpleasant private school | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | school | a public kingdom | bad property | 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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