The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 243

The next day Edmund thought he would prove his tale by showing people the cockatrice, and he actually persuaded some people to go into the cave with him; but the cockatrice had bolted himself in and would not open the door--so Edmund got nothing by that except a scolding for taking people on a wild-goose chase.

Who acts: Edmund, class · What happens: think, prove, show, persuade, go, bolt in · To what, where: tale, cockatrice, people, cave, door, nothing · 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, class), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl:unmarked
4	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 prove	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 prove	aux
8	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tale	nmod:poss
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prove	obj
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 showing	mark
12	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 prove	advcl
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 showing	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cockatrice	det
15	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 persuaded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 persuaded	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 persuaded	nsubj
19	actually	actually	ADV	_	20 persuaded	advmod
20	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 persuaded	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 persuaded	ccomp
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 cave	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cave	det
27	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 bolted	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 bolted	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cockatrice	det
33	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bolted	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bolted	aux
35	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thought	conj
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 bolted	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	35 bolted	compound:prt
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 open	cc
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 open	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 open	advmod
41	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 bolted	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 door	det
43	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 open	obj
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 got	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	47 got	advmod
46	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 got	nsubj
47	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	parataxis
48	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	47 got	obj
49	by	by	ADP	_	50 that	case
50	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 got	obl
51	except	except	ADP	_	53 scolding	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 scolding	det
53	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 got	obl
54	for	for	SCONJ	_	55 taking	mark
55	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 got	advcl
56	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 taking	obj
57	on	on	ADP	_	62 chase	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 chase	det
59	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 goose	amod
60	-	-	PUNCT	_	59 wild	punct
61	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 chase	compound
62	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 taking	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Edmund				day		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	prove	would	class	class's tale					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
3	show	gerund	class not said here	the cockatrice	people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient cockatrice=Topic
4	persuade	past	class	some people				actually property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Patient clause=Result
5	go	to-infinitive	class not said here			the cave		with class	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location
6	bolt in	past · perfect · passive		the cockatrice					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient himself=Result
7	not open	would		the door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
8	get	past	Edmund	nothing				by that; except a scolding	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
9	take	gerund	Edmund not said here	people		a goose chase			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme on chase=Destination
10	tell		class						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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