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title: He stood for a moment looking at the cockatrice; the cockatrice look… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood for a moment looking at the cockatrice; the cockatrice looked at Edmund out of the corner of his eye and began to snore very loudly, and Edmund understood, once and for all, that the cockatrice wasn't going to put up with any nonsense. Who acts: fire, cockatrice, Edmund. A sentence of «The 
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 139

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He stood for a moment looking at the cockatrice; the cockatrice looked at Edmund out of the corner of his eye and began to snore very loudly, and Edmund understood, once and for all, that the cockatrice wasn't going to put up with any nonsense.

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**Who acts:** fire, cockatrice, Edmund · **What happens:** stand, look, begin, snore, understand, not go

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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 (fire, cockatrice, 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:pg23661:14:139
# text = He stood for a moment looking at the cockatrice; the cockatrice looked at Edmund out of the corner of his eye and began to snore very loudly, and Edmund understood, once and for all, that the cockatrice wasn't going to put up with any nonsense.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	snore	snore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
50	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | fire |  |  |  | moment |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the cockatrice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cockatrice=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | the cockatrice |  |  |  |  | out the corner of fire's eye; at Edmund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at edmund=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | the cockatrice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **snore** | to-infinitive | the cockatrice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **understand** | past | Edmund |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **not** **go** | past · progressive | the cockatrice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **put up** | to-infinitive | the cockatrice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with any nonsense | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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