--- title: Edmund crept slowly out and saw the dragon stretching herself on the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Edmund crept slowly out and saw the dragon stretching herself on the rocks in the sun, and he crept past the great creature and tore down the hill into the town and burst into school, crying out: "There's a great dragon coming! Who acts: Edmund, dragon, boy, great dragon. A sentence of «The Book of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/88/) [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/) / 88 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 88 Edmund crept slowly out and saw the dragon stretching herself on the rocks in the sun, and he crept past the great creature and tore down the hill into the town and burst into school, crying out: "There's a great dragon coming! **Who acts:** Edmund, dragon, boy, great dragon · **What happens:** creep, see, stretch, burst, cry out, be · **To what, where:** dragon, centipede, rocks, town, school · **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 (Edmund, dragon, boy, great 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:pg23661:14:88 # text = Edmund crept slowly out and saw the dragon stretching herself on the rocks in the sun, and he crept past the great creature and tore down the hill into the town and burst into school, crying out: "There's a great dragon coming! 1 Edmund Edmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 out out ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 stretching stretch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 past past ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 tore tore NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 down down ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 40 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 43 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 47 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep** | past | Edmund | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | Edmund *not said here* | the dragon | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus | | 3 | **stretch** | gerund | the dragon *not said here* | centipede | | the rocks in the sun | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | | 4 | **creep** | past | boy | | | the town | | past the great creature and tore; down the hill | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into town=Destination | | 5 | **burst** | past | Edmund *not said here* | | | school | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | Edmund *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a great dragon | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | a great dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/89/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)