The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 107

It is very pleasant to slide and slide and slide on clear, dark ice--especially if you feel you are really going somewhere, and more especially if that somewhere is the North Pole.

Who acts: light, you · What happens: be, slide, feel, go · To what, where: clear dark ice, North Pole

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 (light, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleasant	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pleasant	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 pleasant	advmod
4	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 slide	mark
6	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pleasant	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slide	cc
8	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slide	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slide	cc
10	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slide	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 ice	case
12	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ice	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clear	punct
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ice	amod
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slide	obl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 feel	punct
17	especially	especially	ADV	_	20 feel	advmod
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 feel	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 feel	nsubj
20	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 slide	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
23	really	really	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 feel	ccomp
25	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 going	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Pole	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Pole	cc
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 especially	advmod
29	especially	especially	ADV	_	36 Pole	advmod
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 somewhere	mark
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 somewhere	nsubj
32	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 Pole	advcl
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 Pole	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Pole	det
35	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Pole	compound
36	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pleasant	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	light			pleasant property	tree rules
2	slide	to-infinitive	light not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	slide	infinitive	light not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	slide	infinitive	light not said here		clear dark ice		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory
5	feel a condition, not said to happen	present	you			especially property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go	present · progressive	you			somewhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	present	light not said here	the North Pole		especially 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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