The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 88
It was not very easy to know what would poison a dragon, because, you see, they ate such different things.
Who acts: you, shops · What happens: not be, know, poison, see, eat · To what, where: dragon, such different things · 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, shops), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 easy | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 easy | advmod |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | csubj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 poison | obj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 poison | aux |
| 10 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poison | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 because | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ate | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ate | nsubj |
| 20 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | ccomp |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 22 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ate | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | poison | would | a dragon | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Patient dragon=Result | |||||
| 4 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | eat | past | shops = shop | such different things | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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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