The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 51

Now, if you are of an inquiring mind--not at all a nice thing in a little child who reads fairy tales--you will want to know how it is that since the sealskin dwarfs have all been killed, and the fires all been let out, the Aurora Borealis shines, on cold nights, as brightly as ever.

Who acts: you, little child, fairy tales, Aurora Borealis · What happens: inquire, be, read, want, know, let out · To what, where: fairy tales, mind, fires

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, little child, fairy tales, Aurora Borealis), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 mind	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 mind	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mind	cop
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 mind	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mind	det
8	inquiring	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 mind	amod
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	ccomp
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 thing	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	16 thing	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 thing	det
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mind	appos
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 child	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	nmod
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 reads	nsubj
22	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 child	acl:relcl
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tales	compound
24	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 reads	obj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 want	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 want	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 want	aux
28	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tales	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 know	mark
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 want	xcomp
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 killed	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 killed	nsubj:pass
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 killed	cop
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 killed	mark
35	since	since	SCONJ	_	42 killed	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 dwarfs	det
37	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dwarfs	compound
38	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 killed	nsubj:pass
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 killed	aux
40	all	all	ADV	_	42 killed	advmod
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 killed	aux:pass
42	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 know	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 let	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 let	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fires	det
46	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 let	nsubj:pass
47	all	all	ADV	_	49 let	advmod
48	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 let	aux:pass
49	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 killed	advcl
50	out	out	ADP	_	49 let	compound:prt
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 shines	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Borealis	det
53	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Borealis	compound
54	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 shines	nsubj
55	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 let	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 nights	punct
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 nights	case
58	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 nights	amod
59	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 shines	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 brightly	punct
61	as	as	ADV	_	62 brightly	advmod
62	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	55 shines	advmod
63	as	as	ADP	_	64 ever	case
64	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	62 brightly	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you			of a inquiring mind	tree rules
3	read	present	a little child	fairy tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic
4	want	future	you	fairy tales not said here			tree rules
5	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	fairy tales not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	is	present · perfect · passive		mind		all, kill property	tree rules
7	let out	participle · passive		the fires		all property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	shine	present	the Aurora Borealis		night	brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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