The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 143
Of course, the clucking had been the cockatrice, and the big noise like a large gentleman asleep after dinner had been the big dragon.
Who acts: cockatrice · What happens: cluck, be · To what, where: cockatrice, big dragon
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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 9 cockatrice | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cockatrice | det |
| 5 | clucking | cluck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 cockatrice | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cockatrice | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 cockatrice | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cockatrice | det |
| 9 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dragon | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 noise | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 noise | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 noise | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 noise | amod |
| 14 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cockatrice | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 gentleman | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gentleman | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gentleman | amod |
| 18 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noise | nmod |
| 19 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gentleman | amod |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 dinner | case |
| 21 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noise | nmod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dragon | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 dragon | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dragon | amod |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 dragon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cluck | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | the cockatrice and the big noise like a large gentleman after dinner | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | the cockatrice and the big noise like a large gentleman after dinner | the big dragon | tree rules |
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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