--- title: In Shrek, a dragon as big as a castle breathes great flames, flies a… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: In Shrek, a dragon as big as a castle breathes great flames, flies and guards a castle full of treasure. Who acts: dragon. A sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and liz…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/) / 0 # Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 0 In Shrek, a dragon as big as a castle breathes great flames, flies and guards a castle full of treasure. **Who acts:** dragon · **What happens:** breathe, fly, guard · **To what, where:** great flames, Shrek, castle This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:0 # text = In Shrek, a dragon as big as a castle breathes great flames, flies and guards a castle full of treasure. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Shrek Shrek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 flames flame NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breathe** | present | a dragon | great flames | | Shrek | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme | | 2 | **fly** | present | a dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **guard** | present | a dragon *not said here* | a castle | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Beneficiary | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules/14/) - next →: [Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and liz…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/)