The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 40
The passage wound and twisted, and twisted and turned, and turned and wound, but Edmund kept on.
Who acts: passage wound, Edmund · What happens: twist, turn, keep on · To what, where: wound
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 (passage wound, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wound | det |
| 2 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wound | compound |
| 3 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twisted | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 twisted | cc |
| 5 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 twisted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 twisted | cc |
| 8 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 twisted | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 twisted | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 twisted | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wound | cc |
| 15 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kept | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 kept | cc |
| 18 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 kept | nsubj |
| 19 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 twisted | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 kept | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | the passage wound | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | twist | past | the passage wound not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | the passage wound not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | past | the passage wound not said here | wound | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wound=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep on | past | Edmund | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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