The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 59
Could we ever forgive ourselves if by neglecting a simple precaution we lost more rabbits--or even, perhaps, our navy, our police, and our fire brigade?
Who acts: we · What happens: forgive, neglect, lose · To what, where: ourselves, simple precaution, more rabbits
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 (we), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgive | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 forgive | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 forgive | advmod |
| 4 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 forgive | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 neglecting | mark |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 neglecting | mark |
| 8 | neglecting | neglect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 forgive | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 precaution | det |
| 10 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 precaution | amod |
| 11 | precaution | precaution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 neglecting | obj |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 precaution | acl:relcl |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 rabbits | amod |
| 15 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 navy | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 navy | cc |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 navy | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 navy | punct |
| 20 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 23 navy | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 navy | punct |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 navy | nmod:poss |
| 23 | navy | navy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgive | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 police | punct |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 police | nmod:poss |
| 26 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 navy | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 brigade | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 brigade | cc |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brigade | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brigade | compound |
| 31 | brigade | brigade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 navy | conj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | could | we | ourselves | ever | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | neglect a condition, not said to happen | gerund | we not said here | a simple precaution | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | we | more rabbits | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Eventuality |
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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