The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 114

Edmund gasped once or twice, and then ran into the cave to tell the cockatrice.

Who acts: Edmund · What happens: gasp, run, tell · To what, where: cave, cockatrice · 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), 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 gasped	nsubj
2	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 gasped	advmod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 twice	cc
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 once	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 ran	advmod
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gasped	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ran	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cockatrice	det
16	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	gasp	past	Edmund			once property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	Edmund not said here		then	into the cave result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cave=Result
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Edmund not said here	the cockatrice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cockatrice=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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