The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 39

"I _am_ going to find out something at last," said Edmund, and on he went.

Who acts: Edmund, boy · What happens: go, find out, say · To what, where: something, last · 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, boy), 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	_	6 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 I	punct
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 find	compound:prt
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 find	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 find	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 went	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	Edmund			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find out in a quote	to-infinitive	Edmund not said here	something	last	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	Edmund			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	past	boy			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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