The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 42

You would not understand why if I told you--because you are only in long division at present; yet if you want me to tell you, so that you can show off to other children, I will.

Who acts: You, I, me · What happens: not understand, tell, be, want, show off · To what, where: you, long division, me, other children · 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 (You, I, me), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 understand	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 division	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 division	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 division	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 division	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 division	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 division	case
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 division	amod
17	division	division	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 present	case
19	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 division	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 want	advmod
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 want	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	parataxis
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tell	mark
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 want	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 show	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 show	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 show	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 show	aux
34	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	conj
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 show	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 children	case
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 children	amod
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 show	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 will	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 will	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	would	You						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is	present	you			long division		at present	tree rules
4	want a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me			yet		tree rules
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	show off	can	you		other children				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient

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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