The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 63

Edmund's kindly nature was charmed to see the cockatrice so much improved in health, and he said: "Don't mention it; delighted, I'm sure," when the cockatrice began to thank him.

Who acts: cock, cockatrice · What happens: charm, see, improve, say, not mention, be · To what, where: nature, cockatrice, health, cock · 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 (cock, cockatrice), 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	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Edmund	case
3	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	4 nature	advmod
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 charmed	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 charmed	aux:pass
6	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 charmed	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cockatrice	det
10	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 improved	advmod
13	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 see	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 health	case
15	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 improved	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 charmed	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 mention	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 mention	punct
22	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 mention	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 mention	advmod
24	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mention	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 delighted	punct
27	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mention	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 sure	nsubj
30	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sure	cop
31	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mention	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 began	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cockatrice	det
36	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 began	nsubj
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 mention	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 thank	mark
39	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 thank	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 charmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	charm	past · passive		Edmund's nature				tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		the cockatrice				tree rules
3	improve	participle				health		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	cock					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not mention speech: other in a quote	infinitive · do-support		nature				tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	cock				sure property	tree rules
7	begin	past	the cockatrice					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	the cockatrice not said here		cock			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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