The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 51

"I'm a poor starving cockatrice," answered the pale person in a very faint voice, "and I shall die--oh, I know I shall!

Who acts: pale person · What happens: starve, be, answer, die, know · To what, where: poor starving cockatrice, faint voice · 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 (pale person), 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 cockatrice	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 cockatrice	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cockatrice	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cockatrice	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cockatrice	amod
6	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cockatrice	amod
7	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cockatrice	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cockatrice	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 person	det
12	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 person	amod
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 voice	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 voice	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 faint	advmod
17	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 voice	amod
18	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 voice	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 voice	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 die	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 die	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 die	aux
24	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	conj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	oh	oh	INTJ	_	29 know	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 oh	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
29	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	parataxis
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 shall	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 know	ccomp
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	starve in a quote	gerund				tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	the pale person = person	a poor starving cockatrice		tree rules
3	answer speech: express	past	the pale person		a faint voice	tree rules
4	die in a quote	shall	the pale person = person			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	know in a quote	present	the pale person = person			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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