The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 12

You naughty children--how could you be so disobedient?

Who acts: you · What happens: be

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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 children	nsubj
2	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 disobedient	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 disobedient	advmod
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 disobedient	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 disobedient	nsubj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 disobedient	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 disobedient	advmod
10	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 children	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	you					disobedient 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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