The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 74
We shall never have such a chance again--all alone by ourselves--and quite late, too."
Who acts: We · What happens: not have · To what, where: chance
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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 chance | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chance | det |
| 7 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 alone | punct |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 alone | advmod |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 have | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 ourselves | case |
| 13 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 alone | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 late | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 late | cc |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 late | advmod |
| 17 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 have | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 too | punct |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 late | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | shall | We | such chance | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=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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