The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 141
I wonder you can dare to look me in the face, when you remember how your silliness has spoiled everything."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: wonder, dare, look, remember, spoil · To what, where: me, face, silliness · 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dare | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dare | aux |
| 5 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dare | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remember | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 remember | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 remember | nsubj |
| 15 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wonder | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 spoiled | advmod |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 silliness | nmod:poss |
| 18 | silliness | silliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spoiled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 spoiled | aux |
| 20 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 remember | ccomp |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 spoiled | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | dare | can | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | the face | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Attribute | |||
| 4 | remember | present | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | spoil | present · perfect · passive | your silliness | 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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