The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 99
So then he made off through the back door of the town, and raced up the hill to tell the cockatrice and ask for his help.
Who acts: shower · What happens: make off, race up, tell, ask, help · To what, where: back door, hill, cockatrice · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 made | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 8 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 door | amod |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 raced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 raced | cc |
| 15 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 raced | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raced | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tell | mark |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 raced | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cockatrice | det |
| 22 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ask | cc |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tell | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 help | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 help | nmod:poss |
| 27 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ask | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make off | past | shower | the back door of the town | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | race up | past | shower not said here | the hill | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | shower not said here | the cockatrice | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cockatrice=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | shower not said here | for shower's help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | help | shower | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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