The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 215

When Edmund heard her coming he gave one last nip to the drakling's tail, and then heaved up the lid and stood behind it, so that the dragon could not see him.

Who acts: Edmund, drakling, dragon · What happens: hear, come, give, heave up, stand, not see · To what, where: one last nip, tail, lid, 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 (Edmund, drakling, dragon), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 coming	nmod:poss
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 heard	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 nip	nummod
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nip	amod
10	nip	nip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 tail	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 drakling	det
13	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tail	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 drakling	case
15	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heaved	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heaved	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 heaved	advmod
19	heaved	heave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 heaved	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lid	det
22	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heaved	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stood	cc
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heaved	conj
25	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stood	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 see	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dragon	det
31	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 see	advmod
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stood	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	Edmund					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	Edmund not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	drakling	one last nip	the drakling's tail			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nip=Theme to tail=Recipient
4	heave up	participle		the lid			then	vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
5	stand	past				tail		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind it=Location
6	not see	could	the dragon	drakling				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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