The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 185

And Edmund, doing exactly as he had been told, for a wonder, caught the end of the drakling's tail and ran the iron hook through it so that the drakling was held fast.

Who acts: Edmund · What happens: do, tell, catch, run, hold · To what, where: drakling, wonder, end, iron hook, hook · 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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 caught	cc
2	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 caught	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct
4	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Edmund	acl
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 told	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 doing	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wonder	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 wonder	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wonder	det
14	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Edmund	punct
16	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 end	det
18	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caught	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 tail	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 drakling	det
21	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tail	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 drakling	case
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 end	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ran	cc
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 caught	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hook	det
27	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hook	amod
28	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ran	obj
29	through	through	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ran	obl
31	so	so	SCONJ	_	36 held	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 held	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 drakling	det
34	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 held	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 held	aux:pass
36	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 ran	advcl
37	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 held	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	Edmund not said here					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		drakling	a wonder		exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient wonder=Topic
3	catch	past	Edmund	the end of the drakling's tail				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme
4	run	past	Edmund not said here	the iron hook		hook		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hook=Theme through it=Trajectory
5	hold	past · passive		the drakling			fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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