The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 10

Grown-up people will tell you that it is not moths but moths' children who eat fur--but this is only when they are trying to deceive you.

Who acts: Grown people, snowflake, children, this · What happens: grow up, tell, not be, eat, be, deceive · To what, where: you, moths, fur · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grown people, snowflake, children, this), 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	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 people	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 up	punct
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Grown	compound:prt
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 moths	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moths	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 moths	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 moths	advmod
12	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	ccomp
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 children	cc
14	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 children	nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	_	14 moths	case
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 moths	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 eat	nsubj
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 children	acl:relcl
19	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 trying	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 trying	cc
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 trying	nsubj:outer
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 trying	cop
24	only	only	ADV	_	28 trying	advmod
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 trying	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 trying	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 trying	aux
28	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tell	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 deceive	mark
30	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 trying	xcomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 deceive	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	future	Grown people		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	not is a	present	snowflake	moths but moths's children			tree rules
4	eat	present	moths's children	fur			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient
5	is	present · progressive	this			try property	tree rules
6	deceive not said to happen	to-infinitive	this not said here	you			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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