The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 153

"Your mother says you are to, anyhow; and look sharp about it, what's more," said Edmund, gaining courage from the fact that the drakling had not yet eaten him.

Who acts: mother, Edmund, fact · What happens: say, be, anyhow, look, gain, not eat · To what, where: you, courage, fact, drakling · 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 (mother, Edmund, fact), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	6 are	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 anyhow	punct
9	anyhow	anyhow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 are	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 look	cc
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	xcomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sharp	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 more	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 more	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 more	cop
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 look	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 more	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	parataxis
23	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gaining	punct
25	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 said	advcl
26	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gaining	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 fact	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fact	det
29	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gaining	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 eaten	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 drakling	det
32	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 eaten	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 eaten	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 eaten	advmod
35	yet	yet	ADV	_	36 eaten	advmod
36	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 fact	acl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 eaten	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Your mother	you				tree rules
2	be in a quote	present						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	anyhow in a quote	infinitive						tree rules
4	look in a quote	infinitive					sharp property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	present					more property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	Edmund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	gain	gerund	Edmund not said here	courage	the fact			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent courage=Theme from fact=Source
8	not eat	past · perfect · passive	the fact not said here	the drakling		yet		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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