--- title: And then, quite suddenly, a great Red Dragon came out of the book an… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: And then, quite suddenly, a great Red Dragon came out of the book and spread vast scarlet wings and flew away across the garden to the far hills, and Lionel was left with the empty page before him, for the page was quite empty except for the green palm tree and the yellow desert, and the little stre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/166/) [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/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/) / 166 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 166 And then, quite suddenly, a great Red Dragon came out of the book and spread vast scarlet wings and flew away across the garden to the far hills, and Lionel was left with the empty page before him, for the page was quite empty except for the green palm tree and the yellow desert, and the little streaks of red where the paintbrush had gone outside the pencil outline of the Red Dragon. **Who acts:** great Red Dragon, page, little streaks · **What happens:** come out, spread, fly away, leave, be, go · **To what, where:** book, vast scarlet wings, garden, Lionel This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great Red Dragon, page, little streaks), 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:pg23661:1:166 # text = And then, quite suddenly, a great Red Dragon came out of the book and spread vast scarlet wings and flew away across the garden to the far hills, and Lionel was left with the empty page before him, for the page was quite empty except for the green palm tree and the yellow desert, and the little streaks of red where the paintbrush had gone outside the pencil outline of the Red Dragon. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 10 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 out out ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 across across ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 Lionel Lionel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 before before ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 for for SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 quite quite ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ _ 49 except except ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 50 for for ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 52 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 53 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 70 cc _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 62 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 streaks streak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 70 nsubj _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 obl _ _ 66 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 70 advmod _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 paintbrush paintbrush NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nsubj _ _ 69 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 70 aux _ _ 70 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 71 outside outside ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 73 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 compound _ _ 74 outline outline NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 obl _ _ 75 of of ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 76 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 78 det _ _ 77 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 78 flat _ _ 78 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | a great Red Dragon | the book | | | then | suddenly *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient book=Result | | 2 | **spread** | past | a great Red Dragon *not said here* | vast scarlet wings | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | | 3 | **fly away** | past | a great Red Dragon *not said here* | | | the garden | | to the far hills *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hill=Result | | 4 | **leave** | past · passive | | Lionel | | | before PAGE | with the empty page | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme before he=Location | | 5 | **is** | past | the page | | | | | except the green palm tree and the yellow desert; empty *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | past · perfect | the little streaks | | | | | of red; outside the pencil outline of the Red Dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of red=Initial\_Location | 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 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/165/) - next →: [sentence 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/167/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/)