--- title: The Hippogriff rubbed its silky-soft, milky white nose against the l… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: The Hippogriff rubbed its silky-soft, milky white nose against the little King's shoulder, and the little King thought: "But for the wings you are very like my poor, dear lost Rocking Horse." Who acts: Hippogriff, little King, you, wings. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, pa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/69/) [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/) / 69 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 69 The Hippogriff rubbed its silky-soft, milky white nose against the little King's shoulder, and the little King thought: "But for the wings you are very like my poor, dear lost Rocking Horse." **Who acts:** Hippogriff, little King, you, wings · **What happens:** rub, think, be, lose, rock · **To what, where:** silky soft milky white nose, shoulder, wings, Horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Hippogriff, little King, you, wings), 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:pg23661:2:69 # text = The Hippogriff rubbed its silky-soft, milky white nose against the little King's shoulder, and the little King thought: "But for the wings you are very like my poor, dear lost Rocking Horse." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Hippogriff Hippogriff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 5 silky silky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 milky milky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 12 against against ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 But but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 32 very very ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 39 Rocking rock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 xcomp _ _ 40 Horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rub** | past | the Hippogriff | Hippogriff's silky soft milky white nose | | the little King's shoulder | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme against shoulder=Destination | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the little King | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | the wings *not said here* | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | the wings | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rock** *in a quote* | gerund | the wings *not said here* | Horse | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/70/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/)