The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 102

The great slide is like common slides in that when once you have started you have to go on to the end--unless you fall down--and then it hurts just as much as the smaller kind on ponds.

Who acts: great slide, you, slide · What happens: be, start, have, go on, fall down, hurt

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 (great slide, you, slide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:684): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slide	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slide	amod
3	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slides	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slides	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 slides	case
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slides	amod
7	slides	slide	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	16 have	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 in	fixed
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 started	advmod
11	once	once	SCONJ	_	14 started	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 started	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 started	aux
14	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 have	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slides	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 have	xcomp
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 end	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 fall	punct
24	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	26 fall	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 fall	nsubj
26	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 go	advcl
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 fall	compound:prt
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 hurts	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hurts	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 hurts	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hurts	nsubj
32	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 have	conj
33	just	just	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADV	_	32 hurts	advmod
36	as	as	ADP	_	39 kind	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 kind	det
38	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 kind	amod
39	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 much	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 ponds	case
41	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 kind	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the great slide		like common slides	tree rules
2	start	present · perfect	you			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	have	present	you			tree rules
4	go on	to-infinitive	you not said here	to the end		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall down a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hurt	present	slide	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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