The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 173

The cockatrice beckoned Edmund to the side of the basin and whispered in his ear so long and so earnestly that one side of the dear boy's hair was quite burnt off.

Who acts: cockatrice · What happens: beckon, whisper, burnt off · To what, where: Edmund, side, ear, one side

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cockatrice	det
2	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beckoned	nsubj
3	beckoned	beckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beckoned	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beckoned	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 basin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 basin	det
10	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 side	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 whispered	cc
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beckoned	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 ear	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ear	nmod:poss
15	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	obl
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 whispered	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 earnestly	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 earnestly	advmod
20	earnestly	earnestly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 long	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 burnt	mark
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 side	nummod
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 burnt	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 hair	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boy	det
26	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boy	amod
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hair	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 boy	case
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 side	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 burnt	aux:pass
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 burnt	advmod
32	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 whispered	parataxis
33	off	off	ADP	_	32 burnt	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beckoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beckon	past	the cockatrice	Edmund	the side of the basin			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent edmund=Theme to side=Recipient
2	whisper speech: assert	past	the cockatrice not said here			drakling's ear	long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
3	burnt off	past · passive		one side of the dear boy's hair				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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