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title: "Never mind," said the cockatrice, turning over in the pool of fire… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Never mind," said the cockatrice, turning over in the pool of fire to warm its other side, which was chilly, because Edmund had, as usual, forgotten to close the cave door. " Who acts: cockatrice, other side, Edmund. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its de
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 121

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"Never mind," said the cockatrice, turning over in the pool of fire to warm its other side, which was chilly, because Edmund had, as usual, forgotten to close the cave door. "

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**Who acts:** cockatrice, other side, Edmund · **What happens:** not mind, say, turn over, warm, be, have · **To what, where:** pool, other side, cave door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, other side, Edmund), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:14:121
# text = "Never mind," said the cockatrice, turning over in the pool of fire to warm its other side, which was chilly, because Edmund had, as usual, forgotten to close the cave door. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	chilly	chilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the cockatrice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **turn over** | gerund | the cockatrice *not said here* |  |  | the pool of fire |  | over *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **warm** | to-infinitive | the cockatrice *not said here* | pool's other side |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent side=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | pool's other side |  |  |  |  | chilly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | Edmund |  |  |  |  | usual *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **forget** | participle | Edmund *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **close** | infinitive | Edmund *not said here* | the cave door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

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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.

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**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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