The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 34
"It seems to me," said Edmund to himself, "that the clucking is nearer than the others."
Who acts: It, Edmund · What happens: seem, say, cluck, be · To what, where: Edmund, lantern · 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 (It, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 himself | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 himself | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 nearer | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nearer | det |
| 16 | clucking | cluck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 nearer | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 nearer | cop |
| 18 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 himself | advcl |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 others | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 others | det |
| 21 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 nearer | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | It | Edmund | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Edmund | lantern | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cluck in a quote | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | than the others; near 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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