The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 154
The drakling sighed, and Edmund could hear it getting out of bed.
Who acts: drakling, Edmund, courage · What happens: sigh, hear, get out · To what, where: courage, bed
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, Edmund, courage), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 drakling | det |
| 2 | drakling | drakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hear | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hear | cc |
| 6 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hear | aux |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sighed | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | obj |
| 10 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hear | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 getting | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the drakling | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | could | Edmund | courage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get out | gerund | courage not said here | bed | 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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