The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 162

"Here it is," said Edmund, and the cockatrice woke up at once and asked the drakling very politely to sit down and wait. "

Who acts: bed, Edmund, cockatrice, drakling · What happens: be, say, wake up, ask, sit down, wait · 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 (bed, Edmund, cockatrice, drakling), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	parataxis
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 woke	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 woke	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cockatrice	det
12	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woke	nsubj
13	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 woke	compound:prt
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 woke	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 woke	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 drakling	det
20	drakling	drakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	obj
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 politely	advmod
22	politely	politely	ADV	_	18 asked	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sit	mark
24	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	xcomp
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sit	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wait	cc
27	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sit	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	bed	here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Edmund		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wake up	past	the cockatrice		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	the drakling	politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the drakling not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	infinitive	the drakling not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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