The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 209
Edmund had run back to the cockatrice, and it had told him what to do.
Who acts: Edmund · What happens: run back, tell, do · To what, where: town, drakling · 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 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cockatrice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cockatrice | det |
| 7 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 back | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 run | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past · perfect | Edmund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | town | drakling | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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