The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 100

If you have never come across it, it is because you have never let off fireworks on the eleventh of December, and have never been thoroughly naughty and disobedient.

Who acts: you · What happens: not come, not be, be · To what, where: slide, eleventh

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 (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 let	advcl
6	across	across	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 let	cop
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 let	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 let	nsubj:pass
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 let	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 let	compound:prt
17	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 let	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 eleventh	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eleventh	det
20	eleventh	eleventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 December	case
22	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 eleventh	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 naughty	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 naughty	cc
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 naughty	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 naughty	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 naughty	cop
28	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	29 naughty	advmod
29	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 let	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 disobedient	cc
31	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 naughty	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not come a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you		slide		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across it=Initial_Location
2	not is	present · perfect · passive		slide	the eleventh of December	let property	tree rules
3	not is	present · perfect				naughty, thoroughly property	tree rules
4	be						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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