--- title: Then the King ran and opened the book at the page that had "cora" on… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Then the King ran and opened the book at the page that had "cora" on it, and there was the picture--Manticora, all yellow, with a lion's body and a man's face, just as the Chancellor had said. Who acts: King, page, picture, body. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, page, picture, body), 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:pg23661:2:38 # text = Then the King ran and opened the book at the page that had "cora" on it, and there was the picture--Manticora, all yellow, with a lion's body and a man's face, just as the Chancellor had said. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 cora cora NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Manticora Manticora PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 just just ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 43 as as SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 Chancellor Chancellor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | the King | | | | then | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **open** | past | the King *not said here* | the book | | the page | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent book=Theme at page=Location | | 3 | **have** | past | the page | cora | | cora | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cora=Patient | | 4 | **be** | past | the picture | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | a lion's body and a man's face *not said here* | the Chancellor | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | 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. 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