The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 88
Oh--that's easy--I've often done that!"
Who acts: that, I · What happens: be, do · To what, where: that
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 (that, I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 easy | discourse |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 8 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 done | advmod |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 easy | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 done | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | I | that | often property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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