The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 179

Edmund heaved it up by a hook that stuck out at one side, and a rush of hot air came up that nearly choked him.

Who acts: Edmund, hook, rush · What happens: heave up, stick out, come up, choke, rush · To what, where: cellar, one side, rush, hot air

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, hook, rush), 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	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heaved	nsubj
2	heaved	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heaved	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 heaved	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 hook	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hook	det
7	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heaved	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stuck	nsubj
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hook	acl:relcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 stuck	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 side	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 side	nummod
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rush	det
17	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 air	amod
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rush	nmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heaved	conj
22	up	up	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 choked	mark
24	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	25 choked	advmod
25	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 choked	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heaved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	heave up	past	Edmund	cellar			by a hook	vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	stick out	past	a hook			one side		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at side=Destination
3	come up	past	a rush of hot air					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	choke	past	a rush of hot air not said here		rush		nearly property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
5	rush			hot air				nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient

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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