The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 181

"Yes," said Edmund, "well, that's the fire in the middle of the earth.

Who acts: Edmund, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: fire, middle · 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, that), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fire	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 fire	punct
9	well	well	INTJ	_	14 fire	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 fire	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fire	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 middle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 middle	det
17	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fire	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 earth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 middle	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Edmund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	that	the fire		the middle of the earth			tree rules

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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