--- title: The yellow dragon crept nearer and nearer, licking her greedy lips w… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: The yellow dragon crept nearer and nearer, licking her greedy lips with her long red tongue, and Edmund knew that in the school his master was still teaching earnestly and still not believing Edmund's tale the least little bit. Who acts: yellow dragon, Edmund, master. A sentence of «The Book of Drag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/109/) [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/) / 109 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 109 The yellow dragon crept nearer and nearer, licking her greedy lips with her long red tongue, and Edmund knew that in the school his master was still teaching earnestly and still not believing Edmund's tale the least little bit. **Who acts:** yellow dragon, Edmund, master · **What happens:** creep, lick, know, teach, not believe, tell · **To what, where:** greedy lips, school, tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (yellow dragon, Edmund, master), 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:pg23661:14:109 # text = The yellow dragon crept nearer and nearer, licking her greedy lips with her long red tongue, and Edmund knew that in the school his master was still teaching earnestly and still not believing Edmund's tale the least little bit. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 nearer near ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 nearer near ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 licking lick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 15 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 Edmund Edmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 teaching teach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 ccomp _ _ 31 earnestly earnestly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 36 Edmund Edmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 42 amod _ _ 41 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep** | past | the yellow dragon | | | | | near *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lick** | gerund | the yellow dragon *not said here* | granny's greedy lips | | | | with granny's long red tongue | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lip=Experiencer with tongue=Instrument | | 3 | **know** | past | Edmund | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · progressive | shower's master | | | the school | still | earnestly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **believe** | gerund | shower's master *not said here* | Edmund's tale | | | still | the least little bit *obl:unmarked* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | | 6 | **tell** | | Edmund | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/110/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)