The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 10
However, just for this once I don't mind telling you.
Who acts: I · What happens: not mind, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 this | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 However | obl |
| 6 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 10 mind | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mind | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 mind | advmod |
| 10 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 However | advcl |
| 11 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 mind | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 telling | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | I not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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