The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 43

"I expect it's the fire in the middle of the earth," said Edmund, who had not been able to help learning about that at school.

Who acts: Edmund, wound · What happens: expect, be, say, not be, help, learn · To what, where: fire, middle, school · 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, wound), 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 expect	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 expect	nsubj
3	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fire	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fire	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expect	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fire	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 earth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middle	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 expect	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 expect	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 able	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 able	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 able	advmod
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 able	cop
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Edmund	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 help	mark
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 help	xcomp
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 that	case
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 learning	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 school	case
30	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 learning	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect in a quote	present	Edmund				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	wound	the fire	the middle of the earth		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Edmund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not is	past · perfect	Edmund			able property	tree rules
5	help	to-infinitive	Edmund not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	learn	gerund	Edmund not said here		school	about that	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about that=Topic

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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