The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 107
Aren't you tired of being a witch?
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, be
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 (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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tired | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 witch | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 witch | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tired | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | you | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | of a witch | 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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