The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 174
And he never once interrupted the cockatrice to ask why.
Who acts: side · What happens: not interrupt, ask · To what, where: cockatrice
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 (side), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 interrupted | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 interrupted | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 interrupted | advmod |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 interrupted | advmod |
| 5 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cockatrice | det |
| 7 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 interrupted | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ask | mark |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 interrupted | advcl |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 ask | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not interrupt | past | side | the cockatrice | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | side not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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