The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 160

At last the drakling said it was ready, and Edmund, who had forgotten to be frightened, said, "Come on then," and they went back to the cockatrice.

Who acts: last drakling, bed, Edmund · What happens: say, be, forget, not frighten, come on, go back · 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 (last drakling, bed, Edmund), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drakling	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drakling	det
4	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ready	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ready	cop
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
11	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forgotten	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 forgotten	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 forgotten	aux
15	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 Edmund	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 frightened	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 frightened	aux:pass
18	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 forgotten	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Edmund	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Come	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Come	punct
23	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
24	on	on	ADV	_	23 Come	advmod
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 Come	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Come	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 cockatrice	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cockatrice	det
34	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the last drakling			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	bed		ready property	tree rules
3	forget	past · perfect	Edmund			tree rules
4	not frighten	to-infinitive · passive	Edmund not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	say speech: assert	past	Edmund			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come on in a quote	infinitive		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go back	past	Edmund		to the cockatrice result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cockatrice=Result

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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