The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 53
I am not too proud to own that there are some things I know nothing about--and this is one of them.
Who acts: I, things, this · What happens: not be, own, be, know · To what, where: nothing, one
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, things, this), 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 | 5 proud | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 proud | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 proud | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 proud | advmod |
| 5 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 own | mark |
| 7 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 proud | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 are | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 are | expl |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 own | advcl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 are | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 know | advmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 one | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 proud | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | own | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | does | present | some things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | nothing | about property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is a | present | this | one | of things = thing | 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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