The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 125

"I don't know what a granny may be," said the cockatrice, who seemed to be growing weary of the subject, "but if it's a possession to which you attach any importance----"

Who acts: cockatrice, granny, subject, you · What happens: not know, be, say, seem, grow, attach · To what, where: possession, importance · 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, granny, subject, you), 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	_	5 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 be	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 granny	det
8	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 be	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 be	aux
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cockatrice	det
15	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cockatrice	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 growing	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 growing	aux
21	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 seemed	xcomp
22	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 growing	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 subject	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 subject	det
25	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weary	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 cockatrice	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 possession	cc
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 possession	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 possession	nsubj
31	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 possession	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 possession	det
33	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cockatrice	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 attach	obl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 attach	nsubj
37	attach	attach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 possession	parataxis
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 importance	det
39	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 attach	obj
40	----	----	PUNCT	_	37 attach	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 possession	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the cockatrice but a possession = cockatrice			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be in a quote	may	a granny			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the cockatrice but a possession			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	seem	past	the cockatrice but a possession			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	grow	to-infinitive · progressive	the cockatrice but a possession not said here		weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	subject	a possession		tree rules
7	attach in a quote	present	you	any importance	to a possession	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent importance=Patient to which=Co-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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