The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 97

You wouldn't like the nasty dragons to catch you."

Who acts: You · What happens: not like, catch · To what, where: nasty dragons, you

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	4 like	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragons	det
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dragons	amod
7	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 catch	mark
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 catch	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	would	You	the nasty dragons					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dragon=Theme
2	catch	to-infinitive	You not said here	you					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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