The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 42
Perhaps no one will ever know that _we_ have been here, and the robins will cover us with leaves and--"
Who acts: one, we, robins · What happens: know, be, cover · To what, where: us · 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 (one, we, robins), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 here | mark |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 that | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 here | nsubj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 we | punct |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 here | cop |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 know | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cover | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cover | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 robins | det |
| 17 | robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cover | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 cover | aux |
| 19 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | parataxis |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 cover | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 leaves | case |
| 22 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cover | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 leaves | cc |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 and | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 cover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | future | no one | ever | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | we | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cover | future | the robins | us | 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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