--- title: Of the whole of the pack that had come out sporting so merrily to th… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Of the whole of the pack that had come out sporting so merrily to the music of the horn, now not even a puppy-hippopotamus was left, and the dragon was looking anxiously around to see if he had forgotten anything. Who acts: pack, dragon, quarry. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/64/) [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/) / 64 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 64 Of the whole of the pack that had come out sporting so merrily to the music of the horn, now not even a puppy-hippopotamus was left, and the dragon was looking anxiously around to see if he had forgotten anything. **Who acts:** pack, dragon, quarry · **What happens:** come out, sport, not leave, look, see, forget · **To what, where:** puppy hippopotamus, anything 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 (pack, dragon, quarry), 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:pg23661:13:64 # text = Of the whole of the pack that had come out sporting so merrily to the music of the horn, now not even a puppy-hippopotamus was left, and the dragon was looking anxiously around to see if he had forgotten anything. 1 Of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 out out ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 sporting sport VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 merrily merrily ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 hippopotamus hippopotamus NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 36 anxiously anxiously ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 around around ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 40 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 ccomp _ _ 44 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past · perfect | the pack | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **sport** | gerund | | | | | | merrily *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **leave** | past · passive | | a puppy hippopotamus | | | now | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **look** | past · progressive | the dragon | | | | | around *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | the dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **forget** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | quarry | anything | | | | | tree rules | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/65/) - ↑ back to [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/)