The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 157
"Hurry up," said Edmund, as it fumbled clumsily with the seventeenth shoe.
Who acts: Edmund, bed · What happens: hurry up, say, fumble · 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, bed), 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 | _ | 2 Hurry | punct |
| 2 | Hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Hurry | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hurry | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hurry | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fumbled | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 fumbled | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fumbled | nsubj |
| 11 | fumbled | fumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | clumsily | clumsily | ADV | _ | 11 fumbled | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 shoe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shoe | det |
| 15 | seventeenth | seventeenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoe | compound |
| 16 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fumbled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry up in a quote | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Edmund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fumble | past | bed | with the seventeenth shoe; clumsily property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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