--- title: So between them they managed, with bits of stick and by singeing the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: So between them they managed, with bits of stick and by singeing their fingers a little, to poke and shove the dragon till they made it creep into the silver hunting bottle, and then the Prince screwed on the top tight. Who acts: hands, bits, finger, silver. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/121/) [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 Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/) / 121 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 121 So between them they managed, with bits of stick and by singeing their fingers a little, to poke and shove the dragon till they made it creep into the silver hunting bottle, and then the Prince screwed on the top tight. **Who acts:** hands, bits, finger, silver, Prince · **What happens:** manage, singe, poke, shove, make, creep · **To what, where:** bits, fingers, dragon, finger, silver, bottle This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, bits, finger, silver), 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:pg23661:13:121 # text = So between them they managed, with bits of stick and by singeing their fingers a little, to poke and shove the dragon till they made it creep into the silver hunting bottle, and then the Prince screwed on the top tight. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 between between ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 by by SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 singeing singe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 poke poke VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 shove shove VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 till till SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 creep creep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 34 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 screwed screw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **manage** | past | hands *= hand* | bits of stick | | | | between hands *= hand* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent bit=Theme between they=Eventuality | | 2 | **singe** | gerund | bits of stick *not said here* | hands's fingers | | | | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | | 3 | **poke** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shove** | infinitive | | the dragon | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | hands *= hand* | finger | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **creep** | infinitive | finger *not said here* | | | the silver | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into silver=Destination | | 7 | **hunt** | gerund | the silver *not said here* | bottle | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | | 8 | **screw** | past | the Prince | | | | then | on the top tight | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on tight=Co-Patient | 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. 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