The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 212
He's not here!" and made herself thin, and crept into the mountain to find her drakling.
Who acts: voice · What happens: not be, make, creep, find · To what, where: baby, mountain, drakling
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 (voice), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 here | advmod |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crept | cc |
| 13 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 mountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crept | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 crept | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 drakling | nmod:poss |
| 20 | drakling | drakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | voice | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | voice not said here | baby | thin property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product | |||
| 3 | creep in a quote | past | voice not said here | the mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mountain=Destination | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | voice not said here | baby's drakling | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drakling=Topic |
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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