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title: The white-winged horse flew around and around the Dragon as he writh… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The white-winged horse flew around and around the Dragon as he writhed on the dry pebbles. Who acts: winged horse, Horse. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 82

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The white-winged horse flew around and around the Dragon as he writhed on the dry pebbles.

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**Who acts:** winged horse, Horse · **What happens:** wing, fly around, writhe · **To what, where:** dry pebbles

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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 (winged horse, Horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg23661:2:82
# text = The white-winged horse flew around and around the Dragon as he writhed on the dry pebbles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	writhed	writhe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 | **fly around** | past | the winged horse |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **writhe** | past | Horse |  |  | the dry pebbles |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pebble=Location |

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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.

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**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.

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