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The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 88

Edmund crept slowly out and saw the dragon stretching herself on the rocks in the sun, and he crept past the great creature and tore down the hill into the town and burst into school, crying out: "There's a great dragon coming!

Who acts: Edmund, dragon, boy, great dragon · What happens: creep, see, stretch, burst, cry out, be · To what, where: dragon, centipede, rocks, town, 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, dragon, boy, great 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

nsubjadvmodadvmodccconjdetobjaclobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccnsubjparataxiscasedetamodoblccconjcasedetoblcasedetoblccconjcaseoblpunctadvclcompound:prtpunctpunctexplparataxisdetamodnsubjaclpunctrootEdmundPROPNcreptVERBslowlyADVoutADVandCCONJsawVERBtheDETdragonNOUNstretchingVERBherselfPRONonADPtheDETrocksNOUNinADPtheDETsunNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONcreptVERBpastADPtheDETgreatADJcreatureNOUNandCCONJtoreNOUNdownADPtheDEThillNOUNintoADPtheDETtownNOUNandCCONJburstVERBintoADPschoolNOUN,PUNCTcryingVERBoutADP:PUNCT"PUNCTTherePRON'sVERBaDETgreatADJdragonNOUNcomingVERB!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EdmundEdmundPROPNNumber=Sing2 creptnsubj
2creptcreepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3slowlyslowlyADV_4 outadvmod
4outoutADV_2 creptadvmod
5andandCCONJ_6 sawcc
6sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 creptconj
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 dragondet
8dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing6 sawobj
9stretchingstretchVERBVerbForm=Ger8 dragonacl
10herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes9 stretchingobj
11ononADP_13 rockscase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 rocksdet
13rocksrockNOUNNumber=Plur9 stretchingobl
14ininADP_16 suncase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 sundet
16sunsunNOUNNumber=Sing13 rocksnmod
17,,PUNCT_20 creptpunct
18andandCCONJ_20 creptcc
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 creptnsubj
20creptcreepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 creptparataxis
21pastpastADP_24 creaturecase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 creaturedet
23greatgreatADJDegree=Pos24 creatureamod
24creaturecreatureNOUNNumber=Sing20 creptobl
25andandCCONJ_26 torecc
26toretoreNOUNNumber=Sing24 creatureconj
27downdownADP_29 hillcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 hilldet
29hillhillNOUNNumber=Sing20 creptobl
30intointoADP_32 towncase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 towndet
32towntownNOUNNumber=Sing20 creptobl
33andandCCONJ_34 burstcc
34burstburstVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 creptconj
35intointoADP_36 schoolcase
36schoolschoolNOUNNumber=Sing34 burstobl
37,,PUNCT_38 cryingpunct
38cryingcryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part34 burstadvcl
39outoutADP_38 cryingcompound:prt
40::PUNCT_43 'spunct
41""PUNCT_43 'spunct
42TheretherePRONPronType=Dem43 'sexpl
43'sbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 creptparataxis
44aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art46 dragondet
45greatgreatADJDegree=Pos46 dragonamod
46dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing43 'snsubj
47comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger46 dragonacl
48!!PUNCT_2 creptpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1creeppastEdmundout propertytree rules
2seepastEdmund not said herethe dragonvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus
3stretchgerundthe dragon not said herecentipedethe rocks in the sunvn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
4creeppastboythe townpast the great creature and tore; down the hillvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into town=Destination
5burstpastEdmund not said hereschoolvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6cry out speech: expressgerundEdmund not said herevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7be in a quotepresenta great dragontherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8come in a quotegerunda great dragon not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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