The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 16
Though, of course, I know there are some people who could not be happy unless they had a whale to sail on, and perhaps not even then.
Who acts: I, people · What happens: know, be, not be, have, sail on · To what, where: whale · 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 (I, people), 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 | Though | though | ADV | _ | 7 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Though | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 7 know | advmod |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 of | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 of | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 are | expl |
| 9 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | ccomp |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 are | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 happy | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 happy | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 happy | cop |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happy | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 whale | det |
| 21 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sail | mark |
| 23 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 had | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 sail | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 then | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 then | cc |
| 27 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 30 then | advmod |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 then | advmod |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 then | advmod |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 know | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | then | though property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | does | present | some people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | could | some people | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | people | a whale | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sail on | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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