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title: And as the dragon came out of the dungeon, following Johnnie and Tin… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And as the dragon came out of the dungeon, following Johnnie and Tina into the bright gold and blue of their wedding day, he blinked his eyes as a cat does in the sunshine, and he shook himself, and the last of his plates dropped off, and his wings with them, and he was just like a very, very extra-
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 293

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And as the dragon came out of the dungeon, following Johnnie and Tina into the bright gold and blue of their wedding day, he blinked his eyes as a cat does in the sunshine, and he shook himself, and the last of his plates dropped off, and his wings with them, and he was just like a very, very extra-sized cat.

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**Who acts:** dragon, cat, last · **What happens:** come out, follow, blink, do, shake, drop off · **To what, where:** dungeon, Johnnie, bright gold, eyes, sunshine, Dragon

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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, cat, last), 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:pg23661:12:293
# text = And as the dragon came out of the dungeon, following Johnnie and Tina into the bright gold and blue of their wedding day, he blinked his eyes as a cat does in the sunshine, and he shook himself, and the last of his plates dropped off, and his wings with them, and he was just like a very, very extra-sized cat.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Tina	Tina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	blinked	blink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
41	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	nsubj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
49	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
50	off	off	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	70	cop	_	_
61	just	just	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	_
62	like	like	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
64	very	very	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
66	very	very	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
67	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	70	amod	_	_
70	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the dragon | the dungeon |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dungeon=Result |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | the dragon *not said here* | Johnnie and Tina |  | the bright gold |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent johnnie=Theme into gold=Trajectory |
| 3 | **blink** | past | Dragon | Dragon's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | a cat |  |  | the sunshine |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **shake** | past | Dragon | Dragon |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 6 | **drop off** | past | the last | Dragon's wings with people |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | Dragon |  |  |  |  | like a sized cat | tree rules |

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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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