The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 103

At the mouth of the cockatrice's cave Edmund stopped, very much out of breath, to look back at the town.

Who acts: Edmund · What happens: stop, look back · To what, where: mouth

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Edmund), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 mouth	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouth	det
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 cave	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cockatrice	det
6	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cave	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cockatrice	case
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mouth	nmod
9	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	nsubj
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 breath	punct
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	16 breath	advmod
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 breath	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 breath	case
16	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stopped	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 look	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 town	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Edmund			the mouth of the cockatrice's cave			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mouth=Location
2	look back	to-infinitive	Edmund not said here					at the town	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at town=Theme

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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