--- title: And his carriage, drawn by live thunderbolts (thunder travels very f… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: And his carriage, drawn by live thunderbolts (thunder travels very fast), rose in the air and disappeared, and the poor Princess was left, with the dragon and the griffin, on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools. Who acts: live thunderbolts, thunder. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/24/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/) / 24 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 24 And his carriage, drawn by live thunderbolts (thunder travels very fast), rose in the air and disappeared, and the poor Princess was left, with the dragon and the griffin, on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools. **Who acts:** live thunderbolts, thunder · **What happens:** draw, travel, rise, disappear, leave · **To what, where:** carriage, air, poor Princess, Island This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (live thunderbolts, thunder), 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:pg23661:10:24 # text = And his carriage, drawn by live thunderbolts (thunder travels very fast), rose in the air and disappeared, and the poor Princess was left, with the dragon and the griffin, on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 thunderbolts thunderbolt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 griffin griffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 Whirlpools whirlpool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | participle · passive | live thunderbolts | plan's carriage | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **travel** | present | thunder | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rise** | past | | | | the air | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | | 4 | **disappear** | past | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | the poor Princess | | the Island of the Nine Whirlpools | | with the dragon and the griffin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on island=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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/)