The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 104
As he ran he had felt his little legs tremble and shake, while the shadows of the great yellow cloud fell upon him.
Who acts: shower, little legs, shadows · What happens: run, feel, tremble, shake, fall, shadow · To what, where: great yellow cloud
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 (shower, little legs, shadows), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 ran | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | aux |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legs | amod |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tremble | nsubj |
| 10 | tremble | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 felt | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shake | cc |
| 12 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tremble | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 fell | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shadows | det |
| 16 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cloud | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cloud | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloud | amod |
| 20 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloud | amod |
| 21 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shadows | nmod |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shake | advcl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | shower | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | feel | past · perfect | shower | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tremble | present | shower's little legs | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shake | infinitive | shower's little legs not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | the shadows of the great yellow cloud | upon shower | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 6 | shadow | the great yellow cloud | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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