The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 175

But when the whispering was over, Edmund--whose heart, as I may have mentioned, was very tender--said to the drakling: "If you are really hungry, poor thing, I can show you where there is plenty of fire."

Who acts: whispering, I, Edmund, drakling, plenty · What happens: be, mention, say, show · To what, where: Edmund, 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 (whispering, I, Edmund, drakling), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 tender	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 over	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whispering	det
4	whispering	whispering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 over	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
6	over	over	ADV	_	21 tender	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Edmund	punct
8	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 tender	nsubj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 heart	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 heart	nmod:poss
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Edmund	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mentioned	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 mentioned	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 mentioned	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 mentioned	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 mentioned	aux
17	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 Edmund	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Edmund	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tender	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 tender	advmod
21	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tender	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 drakling	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 drakling	det
26	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 hungry	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 hungry	punct
29	If	if	SCONJ	_	33 hungry	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 hungry	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 hungry	cop
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 hungry	advmod
33	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 drakling	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thing	punct
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 thing	amod
36	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hungry	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 show	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 show	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 show	aux
40	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tender	parataxis
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 show	iobj
42	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 is	advmod
43	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	44 is	expl
44	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 show	ccomp
45	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 is	nsubj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 fire	case
47	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 plenty	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 tender	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 tender	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the whispering				over property	tree rules
2	mention speech: other	may · perfect	I	Edmund not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent edmund=Topic
3	is	past	Edmund				tender property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	participle	Edmund not said here		the drakling			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to drakling=Recipient
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the drakling = drakling				hungry property	tree rules
6	show in a quote	can	Edmund		the drakling = drakling			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	be in a quote	present	plenty of fire			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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