The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 71

Look here--I don't care a straw about the Aurora Borealis, but I shouldn't mind discovering the North Pole: It's awfully difficult and dangerous, and then you come home and write a book about it with a lot of pictures, and everybody says how brave you are."

Who acts: you, I, everybody · What happens: look, not care, not mind, discover, be, come · To what, where: straw, North Pole, book · 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, I, everybody), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Look	advmod
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 care	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 care	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 care	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 care	advmod
7	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Look	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 straw	det
9	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 care	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 Borealis	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Borealis	det
12	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Borealis	compound
13	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 straw	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mind	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 mind	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 mind	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 mind	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 mind	advmod
19	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Look	conj
20	discovering	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mind	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Pole	det
22	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Pole	compound
23	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 discovering	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 difficult	punct
25	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 difficult	expl
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 difficult	cop
27	awfully	awfully	ADV	_	28 difficult	advmod
28	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Look	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dangerous	cc
30	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 difficult	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 come	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 come	advmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 come	nsubj
35	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 difficult	conj
36	home	home	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 write	cc
38	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 book	det
40	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 write	obj
41	about	about	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 book	nmod
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 lot	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 lot	det
45	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 write	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 pictures	case
47	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 lot	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 says	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 says	cc
50	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	51 says	nsubj
51	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
52	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	53 brave	advmod
53	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 says	ccomp
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 brave	nsubj
55	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 brave	cop
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	not care	present · do-support	I	a straw			about the Aurora Borealis	tree rules
3	not mind	should	I					vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	discover	gerund	I not said here	the North Pole				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Topic
5	is	present					awfully, difficult property	tree rules
6	be							tree rules
7	come	present	you			then	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	write	infinitive	you not said here	a book			about Pole; with a lot of pictures	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about it=Topic
9	say speech: assert	present	everybody					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	is	present	you				brave property	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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