The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 137
And the cockatrice drew the fire up close around his shoulders, tucked himself up in it, and went to sleep.
Who acts: cockatrice · What happens: draw, tuck up, go · To what, where: fire, advice, sleep
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 drew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cockatrice | det |
| 3 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 close | advmod |
| 8 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 drew | advmod |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 shoulders | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 close | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tucked | punct |
| 13 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 tucked | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 tucked | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tucked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 sleep | case |
| 22 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the cockatrice | the fire | close property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | |||
| 2 | tuck up | past | the cockatrice not said here | fire | advice | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | go | past | the cockatrice not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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