The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 184

So the drakling wriggled through the hole, and began to crawl faster and faster down the slanting shaft that leads to the fire in the middle of the earth.

Who acts: drakling, slanting shaft · What happens: wriggle, begin, crawl, slant, lead · To what, where: drakling, hole, middle

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 (drakling, slanting shaft), 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	So	so	ADV	_	10 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drakling	det
3	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
4	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drakling	acl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 hole	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hole	det
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wriggled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 crawl	mark
12	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 crawl	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 faster	cc
15	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 faster	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	19 shaft	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shaft	det
18	slanting	slant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 shaft	amod
19	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 faster	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 leads	nsubj
21	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 shaft	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leads	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 middle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leads	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 earth	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 earth	det
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 middle	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wriggle	participle		the drakling not said here	the hole		vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the drakling				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	crawl	to-infinitive	the drakling not said here			fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	slant	gerund					vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lead	present	the slanting shaft		the middle of the earth	to the fire	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to fire=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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