The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 85

Very few people know this, though you would think they could tell it by the ice in the jugs of a morning.

Who acts: few people, you, people · What happens: know, think, tell · To what, where: this, map · 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 (few people, you, people), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 few	advmod
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 know	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 think	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 think	aux
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	parataxis
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 think	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 ice	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ice	det
17	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 jugs	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jugs	det
20	jugs	jug	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ice	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 morning	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 morning	det
23	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jugs	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	few people	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	would	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	could	people		map	by the ice in the jugs of a morning	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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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