The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 197
"At you," said Edmund, and went on laughing.
Who acts: Edmund · What happens: say, go, laugh · 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 laughing | mark |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 went | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Edmund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Edmund not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | Edmund not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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