The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 62

But the cockatrice grew red and strong and happy, and its comb grew scarlet, and its feathers glossy, and it lifted itself up and crowed "Cock-a-trice-a-doodle-doo!" very loudly and clearly.

Who acts: cockatrice, comb, oversight, Cock · What happens: grow, lift up, crow, doo · To what, where: scarlet, oversight

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, comb, oversight, Cock), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 grew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cockatrice	det
3	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 strong	cc
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 red	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 happy	cc
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 red	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grew	cc
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 comb	nmod:poss
13	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	nsubj
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
15	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glossy	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 glossy	cc
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 feathers	nmod:poss
19	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 glossy	nsubj
20	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grew	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lifted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lifted	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lifted	nsubj
24	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 lifted	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 lifted	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crowed	cc
28	crowed	crow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 lifted	conj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 doo	punct
30	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 doo	nsubj
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 trice	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 trice	det
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 a	punct
34	trice	trice	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 doo	nsubj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 doo	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 doo	det
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 a	punct
38	doodle	doodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 doo	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 doodle	punct
40	doo	doo	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crowed	obj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 doo	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 doo	punct
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 loudly	advmod
44	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	28 crowed	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 clearly	cc
46	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	44 loudly	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the cockatrice		red property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	oversight's comb	scarlet		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scarlet=Theme
3	lift up	past	oversight	oversight		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
4	crow	participle	oversight not said here		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	doo in a quote		Cock			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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