The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 24

"Good-bye, love!" cried Nigel, and ran out across the yellow sand toward the sea.

Who acts: Nigel · What happens: cry, run out · To what, where: yellow sand

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nigel), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	ccomp
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bye	punct
4	bye	bye	INTJ	_	2 Good	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Good	vocative
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Nigel	Nigel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 ran	compound:prt
15	across	across	ADP	_	18 sand	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sand	det
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sand	amod
18	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	obl
19	toward	toward	ADP	_	21 sea	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sand	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Nigel						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run out	past	Nigel not said here			the yellow sand toward the sea			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sand=Trajectory

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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