The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 61

And now the cockatrice stirred it with his tail and flapped his wings in it so that some of it splashed out on Edmund's hand and burnt it rather badly.

Who acts: cockatrice, some · What happens: stir, flap, splash out, burnt · To what, where: oversight, wings, hand

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, some), 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 stirred	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stirred	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cockatrice	det
4	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stirred	nsubj
5	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stirred	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 tail	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stirred	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flapped	cc
11	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stirred	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wings	nmod:poss
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flapped	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flapped	obl
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 splashed	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 splashed	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 some	nmod
21	splashed	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flapped	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 splashed	compound:prt
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 hand	case
24	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Edmund	case
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 splashed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 burnt	cc
28	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 splashed	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 burnt	obj
30	rather	rather	ADV	_	31 badly	advmod
31	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 burnt	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	past	the cockatrice	oversight		now	with fire's tail	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tail=Co-Patient
2	flap	past	the cockatrice not said here	fire's wings			in oversight	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Patient in it=Topic
3	splash out	past	some		Edmund's hand			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location
4	burnt	past	some not said here	oversight			badly property	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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