The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 75
"I see you've been playing with fire--into mischief as usual," said the master, and he caned Edmund harder than ever.
Who acts: master, you, fire · What happens: see, play, say, cane · To what, where: Edmund · 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 (master, you, fire), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 playing | nsubj |
| 5 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 playing | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 playing | aux |
| 7 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 playing | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 mischief | punct |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 mischief | case |
| 12 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 playing | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 usual | case |
| 14 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mischief | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 master | det |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 caned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 caned | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 caned | nsubj |
| 23 | caned | cane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 24 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 caned | obj |
| 25 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 caned | xcomp |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 ever | case |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 harder | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | the master = master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | you | with fire | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fire=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cane | past | fire | Edmund | hard property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edmund=Patient |
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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