The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 25
You may think that you know all the unpleasant things that could possibly happen to you if you are disobedient, but there are some things which even you do not know, and they did not know them either.
Who acts: You, unpleasant things, things · What happens: think, know, happen, be, not know · To what, where: unpleasant things, you, things, wonders · Speech: someone speaks here
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, unpleasant things, things), 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 think | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 things | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 things | det |
| 9 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 know | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 happen | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 happen | aux |
| 13 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 14 happen | advmod |
| 14 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 happen | obl |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 disobedient | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 disobedient | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 disobedient | cop |
| 20 | disobedient | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 happen | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 are | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 are | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 are | expl |
| 24 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 things | det |
| 26 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 are | nsubj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 know | obj |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 know | advmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 know | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 know | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 know | advmod |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 things | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 know | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 know | cc |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 know | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 know | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 know | advmod |
| 38 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 know | obj |
| 40 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 know | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | may | You | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | all unpleasant things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | happen | could | all unpleasant things | you | possibly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | disobedient property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | does | present | some things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not know | present · do-support | you | some things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | not know | past · do-support | things = thing | wonders = wonder | either property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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