The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 65

Couldn't we go and see them?"

Who acts: we · What happens: not go, see · To what, where: Bories

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 (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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	could	we						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	we not said here	Bories = bory					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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