The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 149

Edmund was a good deal frightened, but he remembered the grim expression of the cockatrice's eye, and the fixed determination of his snore still rang in his ears, in spite of the snoring of the drakling, which was, in itself, considerable.

Who acts: Edmund, drakling, fixed determination, snore · What happens: be, frighten, remember, fix, ring, determine · To what, where: good deal, grim expression, ears, snoring

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, drakling, fixed determination, snore), 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	5 deal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 deal	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remembered	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 remembered	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remembered	nsubj
10	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 deal	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 expression	det
12	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 expression	amod
13	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remembered	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 eye	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cockatrice	det
16	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eye	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 cockatrice	case
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 expression	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rang	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rang	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 determination	det
22	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 determination	amod
23	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rang	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 snore	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 snore	nmod:poss
26	snore	snore	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 determination	nmod
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 rang	advmod
28	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 remembered	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 ears	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ears	nmod:poss
31	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rang	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spite	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 spite	case
34	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rang	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 snoring	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 snoring	det
37	snoring	snoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spite	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 drakling	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 drakling	det
40	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 snoring	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 itself	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 itself	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 itself	cop
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 itself	punct
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 itself	case
46	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 drakling	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 considerable	punct
48	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 spite	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 deal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Edmund	a good deal				tree rules
2	frighten	participle		a good deal not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	remember	past	drakling	the grim expression of the cockatrice's eye				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent expression=Theme
4	fix	participle						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	ring	past	the fixed determination of drakling's snore		drakling's ears	still	in spite of the snoring of the drakling	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
6	is	past	the drakling				in determination	tree rules
7	determine		drakling's snore					nom determination «act intransitive»: of=agent
8	snore		drakling					nom snore «event intransitive»: poss=agent
9	spite			the snoring of the drakling				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
10	snore		the drakling					nom snoring «act intransitive»: of=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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