The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 11

It was Edmund who cut open the India rubber ball to see what made it bounce, and he never did see, any more than you did when you tried the same experiment.

Who acts: mind, Edmund, boy, you · What happens: be, cut, open, see, make, bounce · To what, where: Edmund, India rubber ball, mind, same experiment · 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 (mind, Edmund, boy, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Edmund	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Edmund	cop
3	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Edmund	acl:relcl
6	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ball	det
8	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ball	compound
9	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ball	compound
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 open	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 open	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 see	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 open	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 did	punct
24	any	any	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 did	advmod
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 did	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 did	nsubj
28	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	conj
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 tried	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 tried	nsubj
31	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 did	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 experiment	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 experiment	amod
34	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tried	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Edmund	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	mind	Edmund	tree rules
2	cut	past	Edmund		tree rules
3	open	infinitive	Edmund not said here	the India rubber ball	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ball=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	Edmund not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	make	past		mind	tree rules
6	bounce	infinitive	mind not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not see	past · do-support	boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	do	past	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	try	past	you	the same experiment	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experiment=Eventuality

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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