The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 222
When the last joint of her tail had gone Edmund slammed down the iron door.
Who acts: last joint · What happens: go, slam down · To what, where: Edmund, iron door
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 (last joint), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 9 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 joint | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joint | amod |
| 4 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tail | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joint | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obj |
| 11 | slammed | slam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 gone | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 14 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 door | amod |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slammed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the last joint of joint's tail | Edmund | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location edmund=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slam down | participle | the last joint of joint's tail not said here | the iron door | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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