The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 101
But do not be these things in the hope of finding the great slide--because you might find something quite different, and then you will be sorry.
Who acts: you, hope · What happens: do, not be, find, be · To what, where: things, hope, great slide, something
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, hope), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 do | cc |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 things | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 things | cop |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 do | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hope | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hope | det |
| 9 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 things | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 finding | mark |
| 11 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hope | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 slide | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slide | amod |
| 14 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finding | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 do | parataxis |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 different | advmod |
| 22 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 something | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sorry | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sorry | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 sorry | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 sorry | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 sorry | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sorry | cop |
| 29 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 find | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | infinitive | this things | the hope | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | the hope not said here | the great slide | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slide=Topic | ||||
| 4 | find | might | you | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | future | you | then | sorry 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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