The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 140

He respected the cockatrice very much from that moment, and set off at once to do exactly as he was told--for perhaps the first time in his life.

Who acts: fire · What happens: respect, set off, do, tell · To what, where: cockatrice, fire · 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 (fire), 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 respected	nsubj
2	respected	respect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cockatrice	det
4	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respected	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	2 respected	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 moment	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 respected	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 respected	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 set	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 set	conj
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 told	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	aux:pass
22	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 do	advcl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 time	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 time	case
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	28 time	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 time	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 life	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 time	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 respected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	respect	past	fire	the cockatrice	moment		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cockatrice=Stimulus
2	set off	infinitive	fire not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	to-infinitive	fire not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past · passive		fire	time	exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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