--- title: Edmund saw it all; and he saw, too, creeping across the plain, marki… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Edmund saw it all; and he saw, too, creeping across the plain, marking her way by a black line as everything withered at her touch, the great yellow dragon--and he saw that she was many times bigger than the whole town. Who acts: Edmund, shower, everything, Cockatrice. A sentence of «The Book of Dra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/107/) [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/) / [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/) / 107 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 107 Edmund saw it all; and he saw, too, creeping across the plain, marking her way by a black line as everything withered at her touch, the great yellow dragon--and he saw that she was many times bigger than the whole town. **Who acts:** Edmund, shower, everything, Cockatrice · **What happens:** see, creep, mark, wither, be, touch · **To what, where:** lead, plain, way, touch This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Edmund, shower, everything, Cockatrice), 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:pg23661:14:107 # text = Edmund saw it all; and he saw, too, creeping across the plain, marking her way by a black line as everything withered at her touch, the great yellow dragon--and he saw that she was many times bigger than the whole town. 1 Edmund Edmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 creeping creep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 13 across across ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 marking mark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 26 nsubj _ _ 26 withered wither VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 42 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 xcomp _ _ 45 than than ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Edmund | lead | | | | all *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | shower | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **creep** | gerund | shower *not said here* | | | the plain | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory | | 4 | **mark** | gerund | shower *not said here* | Cockatrice's way | | | | by a black line | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme by line=Destination | | 5 | **wither** | past | everything | | | Cockatrice's touch and the great yellow dragon | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **see** | past | shower | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** | past | Cockatrice | | | | time | than the whole town; big *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **touch** | | Cockatrice | | | | | | nom touch «event 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 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/108/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)