The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 64

If he gets a nice present he will be in a hurry to take it away and show it to his friends, and he will fly off and never come back."

Who acts: uncle, nice present · What happens: get, be, take away, show, fly off, not come back · To what, where: hurry, present, friends

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 (uncle, nice present), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 gets	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fly	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 present	det
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 present	amod
6	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurry	nsubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hurry	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hurry	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hurry	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hurry	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hurry	det
12	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hurry	acl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 take	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 show	cc
18	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 show	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 friends	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 friends	nmod:poss
22	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 show	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fly	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fly	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fly	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 fly	aux
27	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 fly	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 come	advmod
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fly	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 fly	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get a condition, not said to happen	present	uncle					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	future	a nice present			a hurry		tree rules
3	take away	to-infinitive	uncle not said here	present			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	show	infinitive	uncle not said here	present	uncle's friends			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to friend=Recipient
5	fly off	future	uncle					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not come back	infinitive	uncle not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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