The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 244
"A wild goose," said they, "is nothing like a cockatrice."
Who acts: wild goose, Edmund · What happens: say, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wild goose, Edmund), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 goose | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 goose | amod |
| 4 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 goose | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 goose | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nothing | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 they | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 they | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 nothing | cop |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 cockatrice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cockatrice | det |
| 15 | cockatrice | cockatrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a wild goose | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Edmund | nothing | like a cockatrice | 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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