The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 240
And nobody but Edmund could see that of course the shock of being swallowed by the dragon had upset all the maps and put them wrong.
Who acts: nobody, dragon · What happens: see, swallow, upset, put · To what, where: course, shock, maps · 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 (nobody, dragon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 see | nsubj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 Edmund | cc |
| 4 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nobody | conj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 course | det |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 course | case |
| 9 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shock | det |
| 11 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 upset | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 swallowed | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 14 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 shock | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 dragon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dragon | det |
| 17 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swallowed | obl |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 upset | aux |
| 19 | upset | upset | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 see | ccomp |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 maps | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 maps | det |
| 22 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 upset | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 put | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | nobody | that course | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swallow | gerund · passive | the dragon | the shock not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | upset | past · perfect · passive | the shock | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer map=Result | |||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | nobody not said here | maps = map | wrong property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
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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