The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 57
Anyway, the stars are all up in the sky, so you can't go to tea with them."
Who acts: stars, you · What happens: be, not go · To what, where: sky, tea
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 (stars, 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 | Anyway | anyway | INTJ | _ | 7 up | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Anyway | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stars | det |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 up | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 up | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 up | advmod |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 go | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 up | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 14 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 go | advmod |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 tea | case |
| 18 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the stars | the sky | all, up property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not go | can | you | tea | with stars = star | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tea=Initial_Location |
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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