The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 163

Your mother will be here presently," said the cockatrice, stirring up its fire.

Who acts: mother, bed · What happens: be, say, stir up, fire · 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 (mother, bed), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 here	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 here	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 mother	acl
6	presently	presently	ADV	_	5 here	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cockatrice	det
11	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stirring	punct
13	stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 stirring	compound:prt
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fire	nmod:poss
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stirring	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	future	Your mother not said here		here, presently property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Your mother	the cockatrice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cockatrice=Topic
3	stir up in a quote	gerund	Your mother not said here	bed's fire		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient
4	fire in a quote		bed			nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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