The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 99
You know, my child, we cannot begin too young to learn to think of the happiness of others rather than our own.
Who acts: You, we · What happens: know, not begin, learn, think · To what, where: child · 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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 begin | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 begin | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 begin | advmod |
| 10 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | ccomp |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 young | advmod |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 begin | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 learn | mark |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 young | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 think | mark |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 learn | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 happiness | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 happiness | det |
| 19 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 think | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 others | case |
| 21 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 happiness | nmod |
| 22 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 25 own | cc |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 rather | fixed |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 own | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 others | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | my child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not begin | can | we | young property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | we not said here | of the happiness of others | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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