The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 8
If you think that is wrong it is only because you don't know how they spell in Rotundia.
Who acts: you, that, it, gardeners · What happens: think, be, not be, spell · To what, where: Rotundia · 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 (you, that, it, gardeners), 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 | _ | 3 think | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | cop |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | cop |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 know | advmod |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 spell | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spell | nsubj |
| 17 | spell | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Rotundia | case |
| 19 | Rotundia | Rotundia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 spell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present · do-support | it | know property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spell | present | gardeners = gardener | Rotundia | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in rotundia=Manner |
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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