The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 112
Edmund shut his eyes, for though his master was in the town, the amiable Edmund shrank from beholding the awful sight.
Who acts: Edmund, master, amiable Edmund · What happens: shut, be, shrink, behold · To what, where: eyes, awful sight
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, master, amiable 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 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shut | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 town | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 7 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 town | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 town | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 town | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shrank | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Edmund | det |
| 16 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Edmund | amod |
| 17 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shrank | nsubj |
| 18 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 town | conj |
| 19 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 20 beholding | mark |
| 20 | beholding | behold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 shrank | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sight | det |
| 22 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sight | amod |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beholding | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | Edmund | shower's eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | shower's master | for the town | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shrink | past | the amiable Edmund | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | behold | gerund | the amiable Edmund not said here | the awful sight | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
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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