The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 107
And about the monument, Harry, I'm not so sure.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sure | cc |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 monument | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monument | det |
| 4 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sure | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Harry | punct |
| 6 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 monument | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 monument | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sure | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sure | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 sure | advmod |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 sure | advmod |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | about the monument; sure property | 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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