The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 115
You can't wake people if you don't believe in them, can you?"
Who acts: You · What happens: not wake, not believe · To what, where: people
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), 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 | 4 wake | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wake | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wake | advmod |
| 4 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wake | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 believe | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 believe | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 believe | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 believe | advmod |
| 10 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wake | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 believe | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 can | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wake | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wake | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wake | can | You | people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not believe a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | in people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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