The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 79
It doesn't look so _very_ far--we could be back before they had time to get dreadfully angry."
Who acts: lawn, we, George · What happens: not look, be, have, get
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 (lawn, we, George), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 _ | advmod |
| 8 | _ | _ | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 look | advmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 back | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 back | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 back | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 back | cop |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 back | advcl |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 time | acl |
| 21 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 22 angry | advmod |
| 22 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 get | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | present · do-support | lawn | far property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | could | we | back property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | George | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | George not said here | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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