--- title: So the beautiful, white-winged Hippogriff showed him the way in, and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: So the beautiful, white-winged Hippogriff showed him the way in, and there he stayed till the King had him taken out for his great-great-great-great-grandchildren to play with. Who acts: beautiful winged Hippogriff, Horse, King. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/107/) [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/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/) / 107 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 107 So the beautiful, white-winged Hippogriff showed him the way in, and there he stayed till the King had him taken out for his great-great-great-great-grandchildren to play with. **Who acts:** beautiful winged Hippogriff, Horse, King · **What happens:** wing, show, stay, have, take out, play · **To what, where:** way, Horse This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful winged Hippogriff, Horse, King), 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:pg23661:2:107 # text = So the beautiful, white-winged Hippogriff showed him the way in, and there he stayed till the King had him taken out for his great-great-great-great-grandchildren to play with. 1 So so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 winged wing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 Hippogriff Hippogriff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 in in ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 18 expl _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 till till SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 grandchildren grandchild NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wing** | participle | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **show** | past | the beautiful winged Hippogriff | the way | Horse | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic | | 3 | **stay** | past | Horse | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | the King | Horse | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take out** | participle | Horse *not said here* | | | | | for Horse's great great great great grandchildren | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **play** | to-infinitive | Horse *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «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 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/108/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/)