The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 15
If that is not enough to make people happy, I should like to know what is.
Who acts: that, I · What happens: not be, make, like, know, be · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 enough | mark |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 enough | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 enough | advmod |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 like | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enough | advcl |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 like | xcomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 know | ccomp |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | cop |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | that | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | that not said here | people | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | |||
| 3 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | tree rules |
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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