The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 9
My dear, that is the sort of silly question you children always will ask.
Who acts: that, you · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: sort, silly question
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 (that, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dear | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sort | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sort | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sort | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sort | det |
| 7 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dear | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 question | case |
| 9 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 question | amod |
| 10 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sort | nmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 ask | advmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | aux |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 question | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the sort | of silly question | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | future | you | silly question not said here | always property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=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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