The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 150

He screwed up his courage, flung the door open, and called out: "Hello, you drakling.

Who acts: drakling, you · What happens: screw up, fling, call out, drakl · To what, where: courage, door · 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 (drakling, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 screwed	nsubj
2	screwed	screw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 screwed	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 courage	nmod:poss
5	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 screwed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flung	punct
7	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 screwed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flung	obj
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flung	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 called	cc
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 screwed	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 called	compound:prt
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 drakling	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 drakling	punct
17	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	20 drakling	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drakling	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 drakling	nsubj
20	drakling	drakl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 screwed	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 screwed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	screw up	past	drakling	drakling's courage		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient
2	fling	past	drakling not said here	the door	open property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
3	call out speech: assert	participle	drakling not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drakl in a quote	gerund	you			tree rules

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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