The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 11

When they are not thinking about you they say, "I fear the moths have got at my ermine tippet," or, "Your poor Aunt Emma had a lovely sable cloak, but it was eaten by moths."

Who acts: people, moths · What happens: not be, say, fear, get, eat · To what, where: ermine tippet, cloak · 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 (people, moths), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 thinking	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thinking	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thinking	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 thinking	advmod
5	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 eaten	advcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thinking	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thinking	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fear	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 fear	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 fear	nsubj
13	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moths	det
15	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 got	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 got	aux
17	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fear	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 tippet	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tippet	nmod:poss
20	ermine	ermine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tippet	compound
21	tippet	tippet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 or	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
27	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 Emma	nmod:poss
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Emma	amod
29	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Emma	compound
30	Emma	Emma	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 eaten	aux
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 cloak	det
33	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cloak	amod
34	sable	sable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cloak	amod
35	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 eaten	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 eaten	cc
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 eaten	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 eaten	aux:pass
40	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
41	by	by	ADP	_	42 moths	case
42	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 eaten	obl:agent
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 eaten	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	people			about you; think property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fear in a quote	present	people				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	get in a quote	present · perfect	the moths		my ermine tippet		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	eat in a quote	past · passive	moths	cloak			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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