The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 127
They tried to explain to the grouse; but though he is polite, he is not clever, and he only said: "You've got a warm nest, and we'll see that no one takes it from you.
Who acts: friends, grouse, You, we, one · What happens: try, explain, be, not be, say, get · To what, where: grouse, warm nest, nest · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (friends, grouse, You, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 explain | mark |
| 4 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 grouse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grouse | det |
| 7 | grouse | grouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 explain | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 clever | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 clever | cc |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 polite | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 polite | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 polite | cop |
| 13 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 clever | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 polite | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 clever | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 clever | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 clever | advmod |
| 18 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tried | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 got | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 got | punct |
| 26 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 got | nsubj |
| 27 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 got | aux |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 said | ccomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 nest | det |
| 30 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 nest | amod |
| 31 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 see | cc |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 see | nsubj |
| 35 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | aux |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 got | parataxis |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 takes | mark |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 one | det |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 takes | nsubj |
| 40 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | ccomp |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 takes | obj |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 you | case |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 takes | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | friends = friend | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | the grouse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to grouse=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | grouse | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | grouse | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | grouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | get in a quote | present · perfect | You | a warm nest | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | see in a quote | future | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | take in a quote | present | no one | nest | from you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from you=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/127/