The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 68

So the cockatrice began, and he told him about mines and treasures and geological formations, and about gnomes and fairies and dragons, and about glaciers and the Stone Age and the beginning of the world, and about the unicorn and the phoenix, and about Magic, black and white.

Who acts: cockatrice, trice · What happens: begin, tell · To what, where: creature, world · 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 (cockatrice, trice), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cockatrice	det
3	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 mines	case
11	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 treasures	cc
13	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mines	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 formations	cc
15	geological	geological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 formations	amod
16	formations	formation	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mines	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gnomes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gnomes	cc
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 gnomes	case
20	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fairies	cc
22	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gnomes	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dragons	cc
24	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gnomes	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 glaciers	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 glaciers	cc
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 glaciers	case
28	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 gnomes	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Age	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Age	det
31	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Age	compound
32	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 glaciers	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 beginning	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 beginning	det
35	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Age	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 world	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 world	det
38	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 beginning	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 unicorn	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 unicorn	cc
41	about	about	ADP	_	43 unicorn	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 unicorn	det
43	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Age	appos
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 phoenix	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 phoenix	det
46	phoenix	phoenix	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 unicorn	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 black	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 black	cc
49	about	about	ADP	_	50 Magic	case
50	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 black	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 black	punct
52	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 unicorn	parataxis
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 white	cc
54	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 black	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the cockatrice				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	past	trice		creature	about mines and treasures and geological formations	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about mine=Topic
3	begin			the world			nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient

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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