The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 188

So there was the drakling, fast by the silly tail of it, and there was Edmund very busy and important and very pleased with himself, hurrying back to the cockatrice.

What happens: be, hurry

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: 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	_	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 busy	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drakling	det
5	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tail	punct
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 tail	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 tail	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tail	det
10	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tail	amod
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drakling	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tail	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 busy	cop
18	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 busy	advmod
20	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 important	cc
22	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 busy	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pleased	cc
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 pleased	advmod
25	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 busy	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 pleased	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hurrying	punct
29	hurrying	hurry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 busy	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 hurrying	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 cockatrice	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cockatrice	det
33	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 back	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 busy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	is	past	busy property	tree rules
2	be			tree rules
3	be		with drakling	tree rules
4	hurry	gerund		vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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