The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 216

Then he loosed the drakling's tail from the hook, and the dragon peeped down the hole just in time to see her drakling's tail disappear down the smooth, slanting shaft with one last squeak of pain.

Who acts: drakling, dragon, pain · What happens: loose, peep down, see, disappear, slant, squeak · To what, where: tail, hook, hole, shaft

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 (drakling, dragon, pain), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 loosed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loosed	nsubj
3	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drakling	det
5	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tail	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 drakling	case
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loosed	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 hook	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hook	det
10	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loosed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 peeped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 peeped	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dragon	det
14	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peeped	nsubj
15	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loosed	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 peeped	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hole	det
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peeped	obj
19	just	just	ADV	_	21 time	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peeped	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 disappear	advcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 drakling	nmod:poss
25	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tail	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 drakling	case
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
28	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 peeped	parataxis
29	down	down	ADP	_	31 smooth	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 smooth	det
31	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 disappear	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 slanting	punct
33	slanting	slant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 smooth	advcl
34	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slanting	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 squeak	case
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 squeak	nummod
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 squeak	amod
38	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slanting	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 pain	case
40	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 squeak	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loosed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	loose	past	drakling	the drakling's tail	the hook	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	peep down	past	the dragon	the hole		time		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive		Cockatrice's drakling's tail				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus
4	disappear	present					down the smooth	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	slant	gerund		shaft			with one last squeak of pain	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shaft=Theme
6	squeak		pain					nom squeak «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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