The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 194
No doubt you know best," and he began to tuck himself up again in the fire, so Edmund did as he was bid.
Who acts: doubt, Edmund · What happens: know, begin, tuck up, do, bid · To what, where: doubt, fire · 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 (doubt, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 doubt | det |
| 2 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 know | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tuck | mark |
| 12 | tuck | tuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 tuck | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 tuck | compound:prt |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 tuck | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fire | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fire | det |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tuck | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 did | advmod |
| 21 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 bid | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bid | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bid | aux:pass |
| 26 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 did | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | no doubt | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | past | doubt | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tuck up in a quote | to-infinitive | doubt not said here | doubt | the fire | again | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in fire=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | Edmund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bid in a quote | past · passive | doubt | tree rules |
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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