The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 54

I wonder if the star families are nice families--the kind that Mother would like us to go to tea with, if we were little stars?"

Who acts: I, star families, we · What happens: wonder, be, like, go · To what, where: nice families, kind, tea, little stars

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 (I, star families, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wonder	nsubj
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 families	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 families	det
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 families	compound
6	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 families	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 families	cop
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 families	amod
9	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wonder	ccomp
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 kind	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kind	det
12	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 families	appos
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 like	obj
14	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 like	dislocated
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kind	acl:relcl
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 like	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 like	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 tea	case
21	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	19 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stars	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 stars	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 stars	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stars	cop
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stars	amod
28	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wonder	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	the star families	nice families			tree rules
3	like	would		the kind		Mother dislocated	tree rules
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive			tea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tea=Initial_Location
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	we	little stars			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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