The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 25

You seem to be a singularly thoughtless little girl."

Who acts: You · What happens: seem, be · To what, where: singularly thoughtless little girl

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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 seem	nsubj
2	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	9 girl	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 girl	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
6	singularly	singularly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
7	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seem	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	You						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	You not said here	a singularly thoughtless little girl					tree rules

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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