--- title: Then Lionel, in floods of tears, said: "It's a Red Dragon, and it's… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Then Lionel, in floods of tears, said: "It's a Red Dragon, and it's gone flying away to the hills, and I am so sorry, and, oh, do forgive me!" Who acts: Lionel, tear, tears. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lionel, tear, tears), 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:pg23661:1:175 # text = Then Lionel, in floods of tears, said: "It's a Red Dragon, and it's gone flying away to the hills, and I am so sorry, and, oh, do forgive me!" 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 2 Lionel Lionel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 16 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 22 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 oh oh INTJ UH _ 39 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 forgive forgive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Lionel | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | tear | a Red Dragon | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | tear | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fly away** *in a quote* | gerund | tear *not said here* | | | | | to the hills *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hill=Result | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Lionel | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **forgive** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | Lionel | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 7 | **flood** | | tears | | | | | | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | 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 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/174/) - next →: [sentence 176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/176/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/)