The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 95
"It's only a thunder shower," said the master, and caned Edmund more than ever.
Who acts: cloud, thunder shower · What happens: be, say, cane · To what, where: thunder shower, master, 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 (cloud, thunder shower), 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 | _ | 7 shower | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shower | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shower | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 shower | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shower | det |
| 6 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shower | compound |
| 7 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shower | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shower | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 master | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 caned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 caned | cc |
| 15 | caned | cane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 caned | obj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 caned | obj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 ever | case |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 more | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | cloud | a thunder shower | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a thunder shower | the master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cane | past | a thunder shower not said here | Edmund | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent edmund=Patient more=Result |
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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