The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 257
Page 154, "he" changed to "she" (that she coughed)
Who acts: plenty, Transcriber · What happens: change, cough
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 (plenty, Transcriber), 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | compound |
| 2 | 154 | 154 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 she | mark |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 she | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 changed | advcl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 coughed | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 coughed | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 coughed | nsubj |
| 15 | coughed | cough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 coughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | plenty | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cough | past | Transcriber | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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