The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 80
We are very precious and expensive, for we are made, throughout, of the very best sealskin."
Who acts: We · What happens: be, make, throughout · To what, where: we
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), 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 | 4 precious | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 precious | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 precious | advmod |
| 4 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 expensive | cc |
| 6 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 precious | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 precious | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 throughout | punct |
| 13 | throughout | throughout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sealskin | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sealskin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sealskin | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 best | advmod |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 sealskin | amod |
| 19 | sealskin | sealskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 throughout | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 precious | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 precious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | precious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | We not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | throughout | infinitive | we not said here | of the best sealskin | 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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