The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 87

The great door flew open, and Edmund had only just time to hide behind it when out came an immense yellow dragon, who wriggled off down the brass cave like a long, rattling worm--or perhaps more like a monstrous centipede.

Who acts: great door, Edmund, immense yellow dragon · What happens: fly, have out, hide, come, wriggle off, rattle · To what, where: puffing

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 (great door, Edmund, immense yellow dragon), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 door	amod
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flew	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	advcl
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 time	advmod
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 time	advmod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hide	mark
14	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hide	obl
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 out	advmod
18	out	out	ADP	_	9 had	compound:prt
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dragon	det
21	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dragon	amod
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dragon	amod
23	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wriggled	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 wriggled	nsubj
26	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dragon	acl:relcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 wriggled	compound:prt
28	down	down	ADP	_	31 cave	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cave	det
30	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cave	compound
31	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wriggled	obl
32	like	like	ADP	_	37 worm	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 worm	det
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 worm	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 rattling	punct
36	rattling	rattle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 worm	amod
37	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cave	nmod
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 centipede	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 centipede	cc
40	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	45 centipede	advmod
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	45 centipede	advmod
42	like	like	ADP	_	45 centipede	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 centipede	det
44	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 centipede	amod
45	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 worm	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the great door			open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have out	past	Edmund		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hide	to-infinitive	Edmund not said here	puffing			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind it=Location
4	come	past	a immense yellow dragon				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wriggle off	past	a immense yellow dragon			down the brass cave like a long rattling worm or a monstrous centipede	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rattle	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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