The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 44
There aren't any robins, and there aren't any leaves.
Who acts: robins · What happens: not be
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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 are | advmod |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 robins | det |
| 5 | robins | robin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 are | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 are | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 are | expl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 robins | appos |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 are | advmod |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 leaves | det |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 are | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not does | present | any robins | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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