The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 69
And Edmund ate his eggs and his turnover, and listened.
Who acts: Edmund · What happens: eat, listen · To what, where: eggs
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ate | cc |
| 2 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ate | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 turnover | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 turnover | nmod:poss |
| 8 | turnover | turnover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eggs | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 listened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 listened | cc |
| 11 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | Edmund | trice's eggs and trice's turnover | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | Edmund not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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