The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 6
In Rotundia everyone is kind, and no one has anything to be afraid of, unless they're naughty; and then we know it's for our own good.
Who acts: everyone, one, people, we, dragon · What happens: be, have, know · To what, where: Rotundia, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (everyone, one, people, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Rotundia | case |
| 2 | Rotundia | Rotundia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | obl |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 has | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | parataxis |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 has | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 afraid | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 afraid | cop |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 anything | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 afraid | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 naughty | punct |
| 17 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 20 naughty | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 naughty | nsubj |
| 19 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 naughty | cop |
| 20 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 has | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 know | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 know | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 know | advmod |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 know | nsubj |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 good | nsubj |
| 27 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 good | cop |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 good | case |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 good | nmod:poss |
| 30 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 good | amod |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 know | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | everyone | Rotundia | kind property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | no one | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | no one not said here | anything not said here | afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | people | naughty property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | present | we | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is | present | dragon | good 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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