--- title: The cockatrice kept on laughing as loud as it could, and Edmund kept… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: The cockatrice kept on laughing as loud as it could, and Edmund kept on pinching, and presently the great dragon--very long and narrow she had made herself--found her head where the round hole was with the iron lid. Who acts: cockatrice, Edmund, round hole. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/213/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/) / 213 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 213 The cockatrice kept on laughing as loud as it could, and Edmund kept on pinching, and presently the great dragon--very long and narrow she had made herself--found her head where the round hole was with the iron lid. **Who acts:** cockatrice, Edmund, round hole · **What happens:** keep on, laugh, keep, make, find, be · **To what, where:** cockatrice, pinching, head 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, Edmund, round hole), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg23661:14:213 # text = The cockatrice kept on laughing as loud as it could, and Edmund kept on pinching, and presently the great dragon--very long and narrow she had made herself--found her head where the round hole was with the iron lid. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cockatrice cockatrice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 3 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 on on ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Edmund Edmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 pinching pinching NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 presently presently ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 parataxis _ _ 31 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 44 advmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep on** | participle | | the cockatrice *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **laugh** | gerund | the cockatrice *not said here* | | | | | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | past | Edmund | the cockatrice *not said here* | | pinching | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cockatrice=Theme on pinching=Location | | 4 | **make** | past · perfect | Cockatrice | Cockatrice | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product | | 5 | **find** | past | the cockatrice | Cockatrice's head | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | | 6 | **is** | past | the round hole | | | | | with the iron lid | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/212/) - next →: [sentence 214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/214/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)