--- title: For instance, he knew that a drakling is a dragon's baby, and he fel… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: For instance, he knew that a drakling is a dragon's baby, and he felt sure that what he had to do was to find the third of the three noises that people used to hear coming from the mountains. Who acts: fire, drakling, people. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/142/) [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/) / 142 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 142 For instance, he knew that a drakling is a dragon's baby, and he felt sure that what he had to do was to find the third of the three noises that people used to hear coming from the mountains. **Who acts:** fire, drakling, people · **What happens:** know, be, feel, have, do, use · **To what, where:** baby, three noises, mountains 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 (fire, drakling, people), 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:pg23661:14:142 # text = For instance, he knew that a drakling is a dragon's baby, and he felt sure that what he had to do was to find the third of the three noises that people used to hear coming from the mountains. 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 instance instance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 drakling drakling NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj:outer _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 noises noise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obj _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 xcomp _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | fire | | | | | for instance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | a drakling | a dragon's baby | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | past | fire | | | | | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | past | fire | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | fire *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | find *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **use** | past | people | the three noises | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent that=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **hear** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 9 | **come** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | the mountains | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial\_Location | 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 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/141/) - next →: [sentence 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/143/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)