The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 112
We shall be turned into ice long before that."
What happens: turn · To what, where: We
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | aux:pass |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 long | obl |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 turned | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 turned | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | shall · passive | We | before that | long property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
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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