--- title: He caught up _The Book of Beasts_ and jumped on the back of the gent… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: He caught up _The Book of Beasts_ and jumped on the back of the gentle, beautiful Hippogriff, and leaning down he whispered in the sharp, white ear: "Fly, dear Hippogriff, fly your very fastest to the Pebbly Waste." Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/73/) [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/) / 73 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 73 He caught up \_The Book of Beasts\_ and jumped on the back of the gentle, beautiful Hippogriff, and leaning down he whispered in the sharp, white ear: "Fly, dear Hippogriff, fly your very fastest to the Pebbly Waste." **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** catch up, jump, lean down, whisper, fly · **To what, where:** Book, back, sharp white ear, fastest · **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 (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:pg23661:2:73 # text = He caught up _The Book of Beasts_ and jumped on the back of the gentle, beautiful Hippogriff, and leaning down he whispered in the sharp, white ear: "Fly, dear Hippogriff, fly your very fastest to the Pebbly Waste." 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Beasts Beast PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Hippogriff hippogriff NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 24 down down ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Fly Fly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Hippogriff hippogriff NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 obl _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 Pebbly pebbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 Waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch up** | past | King | the Book of Beasts | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | | 2 | **jump** | past | King *not said here* | | | the back of the gentle beautiful Hippogriff | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | | 3 | **lean down** | gerund | | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | King | | | the sharp white ear Fly | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **fly** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your fastest | | | | to the Pebbly Waste *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to waste=Result | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/74/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/)