The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 208
And with that she coughed--and choked--and there was the town, on the hillside.
Who acts: Cockatrice · What happens: cough, choke, be · To what, where: town, hillside
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 coughed | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 coughed | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 coughed | nsubj |
| 5 | coughed | cough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 choked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 choked | cc |
| 8 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coughed | conj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coughed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coughed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hillside | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 hillside | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hillside | det |
| 18 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coughed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cough | past | Cockatrice | the town | the hillside | with that | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent town=Theme on hillside=Destination | ||
| 2 | choke | past | Cockatrice not said here | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | be | past | Cockatrice not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/208/