The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 108

"Oh, my poor, dear granny," said Edmund, for he had a feeling heart, as I ought to have told you before.

Who acts: Edmund, shower · What happens: say, have, tell · To what, where: feeling heart, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	_	8 granny	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 granny	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 granny	nmod:poss
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 granny	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 granny	punct
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 granny	amod
8	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 granny	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 granny	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 had	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 heart	det
18	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heart	compound
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 ought	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ought	nsubj
23	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 told	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	26 told	mark
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 told	aux
26	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 had	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	before	before	ADV	_	26 told	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Edmund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	shower	a feeling heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	ought · perfect	shower not said here		you	before property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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