The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 41
It's not the getting _here_--I see that--it's the getting back again.
Who acts: lot, I · What happens: not get, see, get back · To what, where: that
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 (lot, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 getting | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 getting | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 getting | det |
| 5 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 getting | advmod |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 getting | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 the | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 it | det |
| 17 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 the | acl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 getting | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 getting | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present · progressive | lot | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | present | I | that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get back | gerund | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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