The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 192

Edmund very nearly said "Why?" but he stopped in time, and instead, said: "She won't hear me--"

Who acts: Edmund, plenty, Cockatrice · What happens: say, stop, not hear · To what, where: Edmund · 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, plenty, 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	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	very	very	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Why	punct
6	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 said	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Why	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Why	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 stopped	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stopped	nsubj
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 time	case
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stopped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
16	instead	instead	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 instead	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct
21	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hear	nsubj
22	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 hear	advmod
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 hear	obj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle	Edmund			nearly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	plenty		time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Edmund not said here			instead property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not hear in a quote	future	Cockatrice	Edmund			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=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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