The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 107

Edmund saw it all; and he saw, too, creeping across the plain, marking her way by a black line as everything withered at her touch, the great yellow dragon--and he saw that she was many times bigger than the whole town.

Who acts: Edmund, shower, everything, Cockatrice · What happens: see, creep, mark, wither, be, touch · To what, where: lead, plain, way, touch

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, shower, everything, Cockatrice), 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	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	2 saw	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 too	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 creeping	punct
12	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 saw	conj
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 plain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 plain	det
15	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 creeping	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 marking	punct
17	marking	mark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 creeping	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marking	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 line	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 line	det
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 line	amod
23	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marking	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 withered	mark
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 withered	nsubj
26	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 marking	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 touch	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 touch	nmod:poss
29	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 withered	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dragon	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dragon	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dragon	amod
33	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dragon	amod
34	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 touch	conj
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 saw	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 saw	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 saw	nsubj
38	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 bigger	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 bigger	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 bigger	cop
42	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 times	amod
43	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 bigger	obl:unmarked
44	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 saw	xcomp
45	than	than	ADP	_	48 town	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 town	det
47	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 town	amod
48	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bigger	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Edmund	lead			all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	see	past	shower					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	creep	gerund	shower not said here		the plain			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory
4	mark	gerund	shower not said here	Cockatrice's way			by a black line	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme by line=Destination
5	wither	past	everything		Cockatrice's touch and the great yellow dragon			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	see	past	shower					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	Cockatrice			time	than the whole town; big property	tree rules
8	touch		Cockatrice					nom touch «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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