The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 59
You know it is not good manners to stare, even at Royalty, except of course for cats.
Who acts: You, middle · What happens: know, not be, stare · To what, where: good manners, Royalty · 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, middle), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 manners | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 manners | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 manners | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 manners | amod |
| 7 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 know | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stare | mark |
| 9 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 manners | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Royalty | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 Royalty | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Royalty | case |
| 13 | Royalty | Royalty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stare | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 course | punct |
| 15 | except | except | ADP | _ | 17 course | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 except | fixed |
| 17 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stare | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 cats | case |
| 19 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stare | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | middle | good manners | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stare | to-infinitive | You not said here | Royalty | except course; for cats | 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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