The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 66
"Considering you're eight, you haven't much sense."
Who acts: you · What happens: consider, be, have · To what, where: eight, much sense
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Considering | punct |
| 2 | Considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 have | advcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 eight | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eight | cop |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Considering | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Considering | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sense | amod |
| 11 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | eight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | much sense | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |
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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