The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 41

"My lantern's burning better and better," said he presently, but the next minute he saw that all the light did not come from his lantern.

Who acts: lantern, next minute, light · What happens: burn, say, see, not come · To what, where: 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 (lantern, next minute, light), 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	_	5 burning	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lantern	nmod:poss
3	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burning	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 burning	aux
5	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 burning	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 better	cc
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 better	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 burning	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 burning	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 presently	nsubj
13	presently	presently	ADV	_	11 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 minute	det
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 minute	amod
18	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 come	mark
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 light	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 light	det
24	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 come	advmod
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saw	ccomp
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 lantern	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lantern	nmod:poss
30	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	burn in a quote	present · progressive	My lantern		good property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past	the next minute			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not come	past · do-support	all light	light's lantern		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lantern=Initial_Location

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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