The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 23
Edmund was not afraid of these noises--though they were very strange and terrible.
Who acts: Edmund · What happens: not be, be
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), 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 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 noises | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 noises | det |
| 7 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 afraid | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 strange | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 strange | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 strange | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 strange | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 strange | advmod |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 afraid | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 terrible | cc |
| 15 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 strange | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Edmund | of this noises; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Edmund | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Edmund not said here | tree rules |
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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