--- title: So the cockatrice began, and he told him about mines and treasures a… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: So the cockatrice began, and he told him about mines and treasures and geological formations, and about gnomes and fairies and dragons, and about glaciers and the Stone Age and the beginning of the world, and about the unicorn and the phoenix, and about Magic, black and white. Who acts: cockatrice, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/68/) [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/) / 68 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 68 So the cockatrice began, and he told him about mines and treasures and geological formations, and about gnomes and fairies and dragons, and about glaciers and the Stone Age and the beginning of the world, and about the unicorn and the phoenix, and about Magic, black and white. **Who acts:** cockatrice, trice · **What happens:** begin, tell · **To what, where:** creature, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, trice), 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:pg23661:14:68 # text = So the cockatrice began, and he told him about mines and treasures and geological formations, and about gnomes and fairies and dragons, and about glaciers and the Stone Age and the beginning of the world, and about the unicorn and the phoenix, and about Magic, black and white. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cockatrice cockatrice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 mines mine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 geological geological ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 formations formation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 gnomes gnome NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 glaciers glacier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Age Age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 about about ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 unicorn unicorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 phoenix phoenix NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 49 about about ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 Magic Magic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 parataxis _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the cockatrice | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | trice | | creature | | | about mines and treasures and geological formations | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about mine=Topic | | 3 | **begin** | | | the world | | | | | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient | 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/69/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)