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title: So the griffin rolled over and over, one end of it fighting with the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So the griffin rolled over and over, one end of it fighting with the other, till the eagle end pecked the lion end to death, and the lion end tore the eagle end with its claws till it died. Who acts: griffin, one end, eagle end, lion end. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, pa
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 47

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So the griffin rolled over and over, one end of it fighting with the other, till the eagle end pecked the lion end to death, and the lion end tore the eagle end with its claws till it died.

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**Who acts:** griffin, one end, eagle end, lion end, half · **What happens:** roll, fight, peck, tore, die · **To what, where:** one end, lion end, eagle end

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, one end, eagle end, lion end), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg23661:11:47
# text = So the griffin rolled over and over, one end of it fighting with the other, till the eagle end pecked the lion end to death, and the lion end tore the eagle end with its claws till it died.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pecked	peck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
40	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | the griffin | one end of half |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund | one end of half *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the other | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with other=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **peck** | past | the eagle end | the lion end |  |  |  | to death *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent end=Patient to death=Result |
| 4 | **tore** | past | the lion end | the eagle end |  |  |  | with half's claws | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** | past | half |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**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.

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