The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 220

She was so long, now she had stretched herself thin, that it took all night.

Who acts: Cockatrice, it · What happens: be, stretch, take · To what, where: Cockatrice

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 (Cockatrice, it), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stretched	punct
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stretched	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stretched	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stretched	aux
9	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 long	parataxis
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 stretched	obj
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stretched	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 took	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stretched	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cockatrice			long property	tree rules
2	stretch	past · perfect · passive		Cockatrice	now	thin property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient herself=Result
3	take	past	it		night		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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