The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 67
But, when we give, it should not be in a grudging spirit, especially to visitors.
Who acts: we, present · What happens: give, not be · To what, where: grudging spirit
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 give | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spirit | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 spirit | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 spirit | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 spirit | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 spirit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spirit | det |
| 13 | grudging | grudging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spirit | compound |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 visitors | punct |
| 16 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 18 visitors | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 visitors | case |
| 18 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spirit | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | we | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not is | should | present | a grudging spirit and visitors | 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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