The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 71
Your readiness to give up your Princess will only show how generous you are."
Who acts: readiness, you · What happens: give up, show, be · To what, where: Princess · 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 (readiness, you), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 readiness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | readiness | readiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 show | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 readiness | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 give | compound:prt |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 show | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 show | advmod |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 generous | advmod |
| 12 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 show | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 generous | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 generous | cop |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | to-infinitive | Your readiness not said here | your Princess | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Source | ||||
| 2 | show | future | Your readiness | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | generous 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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