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title: As for the cockatrice, he was not going to stand that sort of thing… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the cockatrice, he was not going to stand that sort of thing for a moment. Who acts: do. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 132

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As for the cockatrice, he was not going to stand that sort of thing for a moment.

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**Who acts:** do · **What happens:** not go, stand, sort · **To what, where:** sort, thing

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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 (do), 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:pg23661:14:132
# text = As for the cockatrice, he was not going to stand that sort of thing for a moment.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · progressive | do |  |  |  |  | as the cockatrice | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | to-infinitive | do *not said here* | that sort of thing |  |  | for a moment |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | thing |  |  | for a moment |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient for=obl |

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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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