The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 99
Its soul will be white and sweet as your lilies, and your diamonds will be no clearer than its wits."
Who acts: soul, diamonds · What happens: be
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 (soul, diamonds), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 soul | nmod:poss |
| 2 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 white | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 white | cop |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sweet | cc |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 white | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 lilies | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lilies | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sweet | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clearer | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 clearer | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 diamonds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 clearer | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 clearer | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 clearer | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 clearer | det |
| 18 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 white | conj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 wits | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wits | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 clearer | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | ruby's soul | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | ruby's soul not said here | as your lilies | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | future | your diamonds | than ruby's wits; clear 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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