The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 31

You will hear grown-up people talk a great deal of nonsense about the North Pole, and when you are grown up, it is even possible that you may talk nonsense about it yourself (the most unlikely things do happen) but deep down in your heart you must always remember that the North Pole is made of clear ice, and could not possibly, if you come to think of it, be made of anything else.

Who acts: You, grown people, it, unlikely things · What happens: hear, grow up, talk, be, happen, remember · To what, where: great deal, you, nonsense, heart, North Pole · 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 (You, grown people, it, unlikely things), 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	3 hear	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 people	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talk	nsubj
8	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 deal	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deal	amod
11	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 nonsense	case
13	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deal	nmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 Pole	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Pole	det
16	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Pole	compound
17	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 nonsense	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grown	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grown	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 grown	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 grown	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 grown	aux:pass
23	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hear	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 grown	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 possible	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 possible	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 possible	cop
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 possible	advmod
29	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hear	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 talk	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 talk	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 talk	aux
33	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 possible	csubj
34	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 talk	obj
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 nonsense	nmod
37	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 talk	obl
38	(	(	PUNCT	_	44 happen	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 things	det
40	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	41 unlikely	advmod
41	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 things	amod
42	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 happen	nsubj
43	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 happen	aux
44	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 talk	parataxis
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	44 happen	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 remember	cc
47	deep	deep	ADV	_	48 down	advmod
48	down	down	ADV	_	55 remember	advmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 heart	case
50	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 heart	nmod:poss
51	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 remember	obl
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 remember	nsubj
53	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 remember	aux
54	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	55 remember	advmod
55	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 talk	conj
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 made	mark
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Pole	det
58	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Pole	compound
59	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 made	nsubj:pass
60	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 made	aux:pass
61	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 remember	ccomp
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 ice	case
63	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 ice	amod
64	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 made	obl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 could	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 could	cc
67	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
68	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 possibly	advmod
69	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	67 could	advmod
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 come	punct
71	if	if	SCONJ	_	73 come	mark
72	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	73 come	nsubj
73	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
74	to	to	PART	_	75 think	mark
75	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 come	xcomp
76	of	of	ADP	_	77 it	case
77	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 think	obl
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 made	punct
79	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	80 made	aux:pass
80	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	75 think	ccomp
81	of	of	ADP	_	82 anything	case
82	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	80 made	obl
83	else	else	ADV	_	82 anything	advmod
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	future	You				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	present	grown people	a great deal of nonsense about the North Pole			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
4	grow up	present · passive		you			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	present	it			possible property	tree rules
6	talk	may	you	nonsense		about deal; yourself obl	tree rules
7	happen	present · do-support	the unlikely things				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	remember	must	you		your heart	always, down property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	make	present · passive		the North Pole		of clear ice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
10	come a condition, not said to happen	present	you				tree rules
11	think speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here			of deal	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
12	make	infinitive · passive				of anything	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
13	deal			nonsense about the North Pole			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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