The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 119
You don't carry firearms, then, I presume?"
Who acts: You, I · What happens: not carry, presume · To what, where: firearms
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 carry | advmod |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | firearms | firearm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 presume | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 presume | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 presume | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 presume | nsubj |
| 10 | presume | presume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 carry | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry | present · do-support | You | firearms | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firearm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | presume | infinitive | I | then | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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