The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 191
Go to the mouth of the cave and laugh at the dragon so that she hears you."
Who acts: you, Cockatrice · What happens: go, laugh, hear · To what, where: mouth, you
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 (you, Cockatrice), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 mouth | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mouth | det |
| 4 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cave | det |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mouth | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laugh | cc |
| 9 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 dragon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laugh | obl |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 hears | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hears | nsubj |
| 16 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 laugh | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 hears | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the mouth of the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mouth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | you not said here | at the dragon | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | present | Cockatrice | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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