The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 33
Of course the dragon had to go south if he went anywhere, because when you get to the North Pole there is no other way to go.
Who acts: friend, you, other way · What happens: have, go, get, 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 (friend, you, other way), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 dragon | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | south | south | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 went | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | advcl |
| 12 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 get | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Pole | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Pole | det |
| 20 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Pole | compound |
| 21 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obl |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | advcl |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 way | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 way | amod |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 way | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | of the dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | south property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | friend | anywhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | you | to the North Pole result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pole=Result | ||||
| 5 | be | present | no other way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | no other way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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