The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 210

So before the dragon had time to look through the town again for her drakling, the voice of the drakling itself was heard howling miserably from inside the mountain, because Edmund was pinching its tail as hard as he could in the round iron door, like the one where the men pour the coals out of the sacks into the cellar.

Who acts: town, Edmund, men · What happens: have, look, hear, howl, pinch, pour · To what, where: town, mountain, tail, coals, sacks

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 (town, Edmund, men), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 dragon	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	8 look	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 drakling	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 drakling	nmod:poss
15	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 voice	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 voice	det
18	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drakling	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 drakling	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 drakling	det
21	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 voice	nmod
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 heard	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux:pass
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 drakling	acl:relcl
25	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 heard	xcomp
26	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	25 howling	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 mountain	case
28	inside	inside	ADP	_	30 mountain	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mountain	det
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 howling	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pinching	punct
32	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 pinching	mark
33	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 pinching	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pinching	aux
35	pinching	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 howling	conj
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 tail	nmod:poss
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pinching	obj
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 hard	advmod
39	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 pinching	advmod
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 could	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 could	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 hard	advcl
43	in	in	ADP	_	47 door	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 door	det
45	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 door	amod
46	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 door	compound
47	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 could	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 one	punct
49	like	like	ADP	_	51 one	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 one	det
51	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pinching	parataxis
52	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	55 pour	advmod
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 men	det
54	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 pour	nsubj
55	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 one	acl:relcl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 coals	det
57	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 pour	obj
58	out	out	ADP	_	61 sacks	case
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 sacks	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 sacks	det
61	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 pour	obl
62	into	into	ADP	_	64 cellar	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 cellar	det
64	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 pour	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past				before the dragon; time		tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive			the town	again	for Cockatrice's drakling and the voice of the drakling	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent through town=Location for drakling=Theme
3	hear	past · passive		town				tree rules
4	howl	gerund	town not said here		the mountain		miserably property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pinch	past · progressive	Edmund	town's tail			hard property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
6	pour	present	the men	the coals	the sacks		into the cellar	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent coal=Theme out sack=Initial_Location into cellar=Destination

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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