--- title: Here another pig put its black nose in at the door, and then another… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Here another pig put its black nose in at the door, and then another and another, till the room was full of pigs, a surging mass of rounded blackness, pushing and struggling to get at Elfin, and grunting softly in the language of true affection. Who acts: pig, room. A sentence of «The Book of Dragon --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/235/) [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/) / 235 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 235 Here another pig put its black nose in at the door, and then another and another, till the room was full of pigs, a surging mass of rounded blackness, pushing and struggling to get at Elfin, and grunting softly in the language of true affection. **Who acts:** pig, room · **What happens:** put, be, surge, round, push, struggle · **To what, where:** black nose, door, Elfin, language 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 (pig, room), 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:pg23661:13:235 # text = Here another pig put its black nose in at the door, and then another and another, till the room was full of pigs, a surging mass of rounded blackness, pushing and struggling to get at Elfin, and grunting softly in the language of true affection. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 4 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 till till SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 surging surge VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 amod _ _ 29 mass mass NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 rounded round VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 blackness blackness NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 struggling struggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Elfin Elfin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 grunting grunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 44 softly softly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 affection affection NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | another pig | best's black nose | | the door; here | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme at door=Destination | | 2 | **is** | past | the room | | | | | of pigs; full *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **surge** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **round** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **push** | gerund | another pig *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **struggle** | gerund | another pig *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | another pig *not said here* | | | Elfin | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **grunt** | gerund | another pig *not said here* | | | the language of true affection | | softly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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 234](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/234/) - next →: [sentence 236](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/236/) - ↑ back to [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/)