The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 213
The cockatrice kept on laughing as loud as it could, and Edmund kept on pinching, and presently the great dragon--very long and narrow she had made herself--found her head where the round hole was with the iron lid.
Who acts: cockatrice, Edmund, round hole · What happens: keep on, laugh, keep, make, find, be · To what, where: cockatrice, pinching, head
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, Edmund, round hole), 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 | 33 found | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cockatrice | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 kept | compound:prt |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 loud | advmod |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laughing | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 could | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 loud | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kept | cc |
| 13 | Edmund | Edmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | nsubj |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cockatrice | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 pinching | case |
| 16 | pinching | pinching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dragon | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dragon | cc |
| 19 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 22 dragon | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dragon | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dragon | amod |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cockatrice | appos |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 long | punct |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dragon | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 narrow | cc |
| 27 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 long | conj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 made | aux |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 long | parataxis |
| 31 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 made | obj |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 cockatrice | punct |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obj |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 lid | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hole | det |
| 38 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 hole | amod |
| 39 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lid | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 lid | cop |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 lid | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 lid | det |
| 43 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lid | compound |
| 44 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 head | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep on | participle | the cockatrice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the cockatrice not said here | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | Edmund | the cockatrice not said here | pinching | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cockatrice=Theme on pinching=Location | |||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | Cockatrice | Cockatrice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product | ||||
| 5 | find | past | the cockatrice | Cockatrice's head | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the round hole | with the iron lid | 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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