--- title: He met the lame giant at the gate of the town, and the giant banged… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: He met the lame giant at the gate of the town, and the giant banged on the dragon with his club as if he were banging an iron foundry, and the dragon behaved like a smelting works--all fire and smoke. Who acts: Dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/200/) [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/) / [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/) / 200 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 200 He met the lame giant at the gate of the town, and the giant banged on the dragon with his club as if he were banging an iron foundry, and the dragon behaved like a smelting works--all fire and smoke. **Who acts:** Dragon · **What happens:** meet, bang, behave, work · **To what, where:** lame giant, gate, giant, iron foundry, dragon, fire This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dragon), 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:pg23661:12:200 # text = He met the lame giant at the gate of the town, and the giant banged on the dragon with his club as if he were banging an iron foundry, and the dragon behaved like a smelting works--all fire and smoke. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 lame lame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 banged bang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 banging bang VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 foundry foundry NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 35 behaved behave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 smelting smelting NOUN NN _ 35 obl _ _ 39 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 -- -- PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Dragon | the lame giant | | the gate of the town | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent | | 2 | **bang** | participle | Dragon *not said here* | the giant | | | | on the dragon with Dragon's club | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dragon=Location | | 3 | **bang** | past · progressive | Dragon | a iron foundry | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foundry=Theme | | 4 | **behave** | participle | | the dragon *not said here* | | | | like a smelting | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like smelting=Attribute | | 5 | **work** | present | the dragon | all fire and smoke | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent fire=Material | 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 199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/199/) - next →: [sentence 201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/201/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)