The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 39
Just think of the fuss people always make about getting here--and it was no trouble at all, really."
Who acts: you, people, Pole · What happens: think, make, get, be · To what, where: fuss, trouble, all
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, people, Pole), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 think | advmod |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fuss | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fuss | det |
| 5 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | obl |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | nsubj |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fuss | acl:relcl |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 getting | mark |
| 10 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 make | advcl |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 getting | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 trouble | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 trouble | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 trouble | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 trouble | det |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 think | parataxis |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 trouble | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 really | punct |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 trouble | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of the fuss | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | present | people | the fuss not said here | always property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuss=Product | |||
| 3 | get | gerund | people not said here | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Pole | no trouble | all | 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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