The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 199

Then the good cockatrice called out: "At you!

What happens: call out · To what, where: good 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: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 called	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cockatrice	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cockatrice	amod
4	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj:pass
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 called	compound:prt
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 you	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 you	punct
9	At	at	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 called	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		the good cockatrice			then	at you	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: subject=Theme at you=Stimulus

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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