The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 67
You'll wish we were bears before you've done with us."
Who acts: You, we · What happens: wish, be, do · To what, where: bears
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, we), 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 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | aux |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bears | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bears | cop |
| 6 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wish | parataxis |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 done | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 done | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | future | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | we | bears | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | you | with us | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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