--- title: So the witch took the Queen in a carriage drawn by live sunbeams (wh… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: So the witch took the Queen in a carriage drawn by live sunbeams (which travel more quickly than anything else in the world, and much quicker than thunder), and so away and away to the Lone Tower on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools. Who acts: witch, live sunbeams. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/32/) [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/) / 32 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 32 So the witch took the Queen in a carriage drawn by live sunbeams (which travel more quickly than anything else in the world, and much quicker than thunder), and so away and away to the Lone Tower on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools. **Who acts:** witch, live sunbeams · **What happens:** take, draw, travel · **To what, where:** Queen, carriage 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 (witch, live sunbeams), 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:pg23661:10:32 # text = So the witch took the Queen in a carriage drawn by live sunbeams (which travel more quickly than anything else in the world, and much quicker than thunder), and so away and away to the Lone Tower on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sunbeams sunbeam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obl _ _ 21 else else ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 much much ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 quicker quick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 conj _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 away away ADV RB _ 35 conj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Lone Lone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 48 Whirlpools whirlpool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the witch | the Queen | | a carriage | | on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools; away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme on island=Destination | | 2 | **draw** | participle | | a carriage *not said here* | | | | by live sunbeams | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **travel** | present | live sunbeams | | | | | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/33/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/10/)