The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 121

"Never mind," said the cockatrice, turning over in the pool of fire to warm its other side, which was chilly, because Edmund had, as usual, forgotten to close the cave door. "

Who acts: cockatrice, other side, Edmund · What happens: not mind, say, turn over, warm, be, have · To what, where: pool, other side, cave door · 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 (cockatrice, other side, Edmund), 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	_	3 mind	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 mind	advmod
3	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cockatrice	det
8	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turning	punct
10	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 turning	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 pool	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pool	det
14	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turning	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 fire	case
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pool	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 warm	mark
18	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 turning	advcl
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 side	nmod:poss
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 side	amod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warm	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 chilly	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 chilly	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 chilly	cop
25	chilly	chilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 side	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 usual	punct
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 usual	case
32	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 had	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 forgotten	punct
34	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 usual	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 close	case
36	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 forgotten	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 door	det
38	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 door	compound
39	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 close	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not mind in a quote	infinitive					vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the cockatrice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn over	gerund	the cockatrice not said here		the pool of fire	over property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	warm	to-infinitive	the cockatrice not said here	pool's other side			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent side=Patient
5	is	past	pool's other side			chilly property	tree rules
6	have	past	Edmund			usual property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	forget	participle	Edmund not said here				tree rules
8	not close	infinitive	Edmund not said here	the cave door			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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