The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 158

"Mother said I was never to go out without my shoes," said the drakling; so Edmund had to help it to put them on.

Who acts: Mother, drakling, Edmund, bed · What happens: say, not be, have, help, put on · To what, where: bed, Edmund · 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, drakling, 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	_	3 said	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	cop
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 go	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 shoes	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shoes	nmod:poss
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 drakling	det
17	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
20	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 help	mark
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 put	mark
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 help	xcomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	26 put	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is in a quote	past	Mother		without my shoes; go, out property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the drakling			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	Edmund			tree rules
5	help	to-infinitive	Edmund not said here	bed		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	put on	to-infinitive	bed not said here	Edmund		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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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