--- title: But the cockatrice grew red and strong and happy, and its comb grew… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: But the cockatrice grew red and strong and happy, and its comb grew scarlet, and its feathers glossy, and it lifted itself up and crowed "Cock-a-trice-a-doodle-doo!" very loudly and clearly. Who acts: cockatrice, comb, oversight, Cock. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Ed --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/62/) [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/) / 62 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 62 But the cockatrice grew red and strong and happy, and its comb grew scarlet, and its feathers glossy, and it lifted itself up and crowed "Cock-a-trice-a-doodle-doo!" very loudly and clearly. **Who acts:** cockatrice, comb, oversight, Cock · **What happens:** grow, lift up, crow, doo · **To what, where:** scarlet, oversight 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, comb, oversight, Cock), 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:pg23661:14:62 # text = But the cockatrice grew red and strong and happy, and its comb grew scarlet, and its feathers glossy, and it lifted itself up and crowed "Cock-a-trice-a-doodle-doo!" very loudly and clearly. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cockatrice cockatrice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 glossy glossy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 crowed crow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 trice trice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 doodle doodle NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 doo doo NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 43 very very ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the cockatrice | | | | | red *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | past | oversight's comb | scarlet | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scarlet=Theme | | 3 | **lift up** | past | oversight | oversight | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 4 | **crow** | participle | oversight *not said here* | | | | | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **doo** *in a quote* | | Cock | | | | | | 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/63/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)