The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 237

"But look at the maps," said Edmund, who wasn't going to be beaten in argument, whatever he might be in the flesh.

Who acts: Edmund, whatever · What happens: look, say, not go, beat, be · To what, where: argument, flesh · Speech: someone speaks here

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, whatever), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 look	cc
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 maps	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maps	det
6	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 going	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 going	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 going	advmod
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	18 beaten	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 beaten	aux:pass
18	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 going	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 argument	case
20	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beaten	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flesh	punct
22	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 flesh	nsubj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 flesh	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 flesh	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 flesh	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 flesh	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 flesh	det
28	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 argument	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive			at the maps	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at map=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not go	past · progressive	Edmund			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	beat	to-infinitive · passive	Edmund not said here	argument and the flesh		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: in argument=Location
5	is	might	whatever	the flesh		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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