The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 43
It is because dragons can get their tails into the fourth dimension and hold on there, and when you can do that everything else is easy.
Who acts: dragon, you, everything · What happens: be, hold on, do · To what, where: fourth dimension, that
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 (dragon, you, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:834): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | cop |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 4 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tails | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 dimension | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dimension | det |
| 11 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 dimension | amod |
| 12 | dimension | dimension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hold | cc |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 hold | compound:prt |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 hold | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 easy | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 easy | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 do | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 easy | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 easy | nsubj |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 everything | advmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 easy | cop |
| 27 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can · present | dragon | the fourth dimension | get property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold on | infinitive | dragon not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | can | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | present | everything | easy property | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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