The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 132
As for the cockatrice, he was not going to stand that sort of thing for a moment.
Who acts: do · What happens: not go, stand, sort · To what, where: sort, thing
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 (do), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 cockatrice | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cockatrice | det |
| 4 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cockatrice | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 going | advmod |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stand | mark |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 sort | det |
| 13 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stand | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 thing | case |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sort | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 moment | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moment | det |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sort | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · progressive | do | as the cockatrice | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | do not said here | that sort of thing | for a moment | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sort | thing | for a moment | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient for=obl |
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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