The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 167

It reached out a claw toward the cockatrice's basin.

Who acts: basin · What happens: reach out · To what, where: claw

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 (basin), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reached	nsubj
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 reached	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 claw	det
5	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obj
6	toward	toward	ADP	_	10 basin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cockatrice	det
8	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 basin	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 cockatrice	case
10	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach out	past	basin	a claw				toward the cockatrice's basin	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent claw=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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