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title: He thanked the cockatrice for his kindness, and got home just in tim… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He thanked the cockatrice for his kindness, and got home just in time to have breakfast and get to school by nine. Who acts: Germany. 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 224

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He thanked the cockatrice for his kindness, and got home just in time to have breakfast and get to school by nine.

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**Who acts:** Germany · **What happens:** thank, get, have · **To what, where:** cockatrice, breakfast

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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 (Germany), 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:pg23661:14:224
# text = He thanked the cockatrice for his kindness, and got home just in time to have breakfast and get to school by nine.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Germany |  | the cockatrice |  |  | for Germany's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cockatrice=Theme for kindness=Attribute |
| 2 | **get** | past |  |  |  |  | time | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | breakfast |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to school *result*; by nine | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to school=Result |

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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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