The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 245

And poor Edmund could not say a word, though he knew how wrong they were.

Who acts: poor Edmund, goose, Edmund · What happens: not say, know, be · To what, where: word · 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 (poor Edmund, goose, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Edmund	amod
3	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 knew	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wrong	advmod
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knew	ccomp
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wrong	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wrong	cop
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	could	poor Edmund	a word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	know	past	goose			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Edmund		wrong property	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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