The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 77

Now, one day Edmund made a new lantern out of something chemical that he sneaked from the school laboratory.

Who acts: one day, lantern · What happens: make, sneak · To what, where: new lantern, something chemical, school laboratory

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 (one day, lantern), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 made	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
5	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	appos
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lantern	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lantern	amod
9	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 chemical	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 chemical	case
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 chemical	compound
13	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sneaked	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sneaked	nsubj
16	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chemical	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 laboratory	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 laboratory	det
19	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laboratory	compound
20	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sneaked	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	one day	a new lantern		something chemical	now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lantern=Product
2	sneak	past	lantern	something chemical		the school laboratory			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme from laboratory=Trajectory

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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