The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 100
It never occurred to him that the cockatrice might not believe him.
Who acts: hill, cockatrice · What happens: not occur, not believe · To what, where: shower
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 (hill, cockatrice), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 occurred | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 occurred | advmod |
| 3 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 occurred | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 believe | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cockatrice | det |
| 8 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believe | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 believe | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 believe | advmod |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 occurred | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 believe | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not occur | past | hill | shower | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not believe | might | the cockatrice | shower | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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