The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 73
That knife would never have cut Harry's jacket-tail off, though, and when Effie had tried for some time she saw that this was so and gave it up.
Who acts: Effie, this · What happens: not cut off, try, see, be · To what, where: knife, Effie, time
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 (Effie, this), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 knife | det |
| 2 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 cut | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cut | aux |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tail | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Harry | case |
| 9 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tail | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 jacket | punct |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 though | punct |
| 14 | though | though | ADV | _ | 6 cut | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tried | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 tried | advmod |
| 18 | Effie | Effie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tried | aux |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cut | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tried | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | acl:relcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 gave | mark |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gave | cop |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 gave | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gave | cc |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saw | advcl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gave | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 gave | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cut off | would · perfect · passive | that knife | though property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | past · perfect · passive | Effie | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Effie | some time not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | this | give 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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