--- title: The great door flew open, and Edmund had only just time to hide behi… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: The great door flew open, and Edmund had only just time to hide behind it when out came an immense yellow dragon, who wriggled off down the brass cave like a long, rattling worm--or perhaps more like a monstrous centipede. Who acts: great door, Edmund, immense yellow dragon. A sentence of «The Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/87/) [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/) / 87 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 87 The great door flew open, and Edmund had only just time to hide behind it when out came an immense yellow dragon, who wriggled off down the brass cave like a long, rattling worm--or perhaps more like a monstrous centipede. **Who acts:** great door, Edmund, immense yellow dragon · **What happens:** fly, have out, hide, come, wriggle off, rattle · **To what, where:** puffing 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 (great door, Edmund, immense yellow dragon), 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:pg23661:14:87 # text = The great door flew open, and Edmund had only just time to hide behind it when out came an immense yellow dragon, who wriggled off down the brass cave like a long, rattling worm--or perhaps more like a monstrous centipede. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 Edmund Edmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 behind behind ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 19 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 immense immense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 wriggled wriggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 down down ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 rattling rattle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 amod _ _ 37 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 -- -- PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 40 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 41 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 45 advmod _ _ 42 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 monstrous monstrous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 centipede centipede NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | the great door | | | | | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have out** | past | Edmund | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Edmund *not said here* | | | puffing | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind it=Location | | 4 | **come** | past | a immense yellow dragon | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **wriggle off** | past | a immense yellow dragon | | | | | down the brass cave like a long rattling worm or a monstrous centipede | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rattle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/88/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)