The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 114
And don't you see, Ef, that's the very reason why we could wake him?
Who acts: you, that, we · What happens: do, not see, be, wake · To what, where: Ef, reason
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 do | cc |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 do | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ef | punct |
| 7 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 do | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reason | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 reason | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 reason | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reason | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 reason | advmod |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ef | appos |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 wake | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wake | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wake | aux |
| 17 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reason | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wake | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | Ef | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wake | could | we | Ef | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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