The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 78
We are George and Jane--who are you?"
Who acts: We, you · What happens: be · To what, where: George
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 (We, you), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 George | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 George | cop |
| 3 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Jane | cc |
| 5 | Jane | Jane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 George | conj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 who | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 George | acl:relcl |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 who | cop |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 who | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 George | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 George | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | We | George and Jane | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | George and Jane not said here | 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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