--- title: At last the dragon won, and the giant sneaked away across the marshe… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: At last the dragon won, and the giant sneaked away across the marshes, and the dragon, who was very tired, went home to sleep, announcing his intention of eating the town in the morning. Who acts: giant, dragon, intention. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/202/) [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/) / 202 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 202 At last the dragon won, and the giant sneaked away across the marshes, and the dragon, who was very tired, went home to sleep, announcing his intention of eating the town in the morning. **Who acts:** giant, dragon, intention · **What happens:** win, sneak away, be, go, sleep, announce · **To what, where:** marshes, intention, town 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 (giant, dragon, intention), 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:pg23661:12:202 # text = At last the dragon won, and the giant sneaked away across the marshes, and the dragon, who was very tired, went home to sleep, announcing his intention of eating the town in the morning. 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 5 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sneaked sneak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 across across ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 marshes marsh NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 home home ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 announcing announce VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 intention intention NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 of of SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | past | | | | | | at the last dragon | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at dragon=Eventuality | | 2 | **sneak away** | past | the giant | | | the marshes | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across marsh=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | past | the dragon | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | past | the dragon | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **announce** *speech: other* | gerund | the dragon *not said here* | Dragon's intention | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Theme | | 7 | **eat** | gerund | Dragon's intention *not said here* | the town | | | in the morning | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient | | 8 | **intend** | | Dragon | | | | | | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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 201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/201/) - next →: [sentence 203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/203/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)