The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 118
You shall wear a dragonproof frock, made of stuff like the curtains.
Who acts: You · What happens: wear, make · To what, where: dragonproof frock
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 | 3 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wear | aux |
| 3 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 frock | det |
| 5 | dragonproof | dragonproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 frock | amod |
| 6 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wear | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 frock | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stuff | case |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 curtains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 curtains | det |
| 13 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | shall | You | a dragonproof frock | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a dragonproof frock not said here | of stuff; like the curtains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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