The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 139

He stood for a moment looking at the cockatrice; the cockatrice looked at Edmund out of the corner of his eye and began to snore very loudly, and Edmund understood, once and for all, that the cockatrice wasn't going to put up with any nonsense.

Who acts: fire, cockatrice, Edmund · What happens: stand, look, begin, snore, understand, not go

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 (fire, cockatrice, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 moment	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 cockatrice	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cockatrice	det
9	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cockatrice	det
12	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 Edmund	case
15	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 corner	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 corner	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 corner	det
19	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 eye	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eye	nmod:poss
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 corner	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 snore	mark
26	snore	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 loudly	advmod
28	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	26 snore	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 understood	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 understood	cc
31	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 understood	nsubj
32	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 once	punct
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 understood	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 all	cc
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 all	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 once	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 going	punct
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 going	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cockatrice	det
41	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 going	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 going	aux
43	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 going	advmod
44	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 understood	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 put	mark
46	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 going	xcomp
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 put	compound:prt
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 nonsense	case
49	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	50 nonsense	det
50	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 put	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	fire	moment		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	fire not said here		at the cockatrice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cockatrice=Theme
3	look	past	the cockatrice		out the corner of fire's eye; at Edmund	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at edmund=Theme
4	begin	past	the cockatrice not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	snore	to-infinitive	the cockatrice not said here		loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	understand	past	Edmund		once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	not go	past · progressive	the cockatrice			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	put up	to-infinitive	the cockatrice not said here		with any nonsense	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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