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title: Edmund heaved it up by a hook that stuck out at one side, and a rush… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Edmund heaved it up by a hook that stuck out at one side, and a rush of hot air came up that nearly choked him. Who acts: Edmund, hook, rush. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 179

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Edmund heaved it up by a hook that stuck out at one side, and a rush of hot air came up that nearly choked him.

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**Who acts:** Edmund, hook, rush · **What happens:** heave up, stick out, come up, choke, rush · **To what, where:** cellar, one side, rush, hot air

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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, hook, rush), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:14:179
# text = Edmund heaved it up by a hook that stuck out at one side, and a rush of hot air came up that nearly choked him.
1	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heaved	heave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	choked	choke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heave up** | past | Edmund | cellar |  |  |  | by a hook | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **stick out** | past | a hook |  |  | one side |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at side=Destination |
| 3 | **come up** | past | a rush of hot air |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **choke** | past | a rush of hot air *not said here* |  | rush |  |  | nearly *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
| 5 | **rush** |  |  | hot air |  |  |  |  | nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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