The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 67
Oh, if he would only drop us before he gets there!"
Who acts: Harry · What happens: drop, get · To what, where: us
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 (Harry), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 drop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 drop | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drop | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 drop | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 drop | advmod |
| 7 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 drop | obj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 gets | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 drop | advcl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 gets | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 drop | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | would | Harry | us | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Harry | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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