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title: Then he loosed the drakling's tail from the hook, and the dragon pee… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he loosed the drakling's tail from the hook, and the dragon peeped down the hole just in time to see her drakling's tail disappear down the smooth, slanting shaft with one last squeak of pain. Who acts: drakling, dragon, pain. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 216

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Then he loosed the drakling's tail from the hook, and the dragon peeped down the hole just in time to see her drakling's tail disappear down the smooth, slanting shaft with one last squeak of pain.

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**Who acts:** drakling, dragon, pain · **What happens:** loose, peep down, see, disappear, slant, squeak · **To what, where:** tail, hook, hole, shaft

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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 (drakling, dragon, pain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg23661:14:216
# text = Then he loosed the drakling's tail from the hook, and the dragon peeped down the hole just in time to see her drakling's tail disappear down the smooth, slanting shaft with one last squeak of pain.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loosed	loose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	disappear	disappear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	slanting	slant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
34	shaft	shaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loose** | past | drakling | the drakling's tail |  | the hook | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 2 | **peep down** | past | the dragon | the hole |  |  | time |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Cockatrice's drakling's tail |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus |
| 4 | **disappear** | present |  |  |  |  |  | down the smooth | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **slant** | gerund |  | shaft |  |  |  | with one last squeak of pain | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shaft=Theme |
| 6 | **squeak** |  | pain |  |  |  |  |  | nom squeak «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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