--- title: He looked and he hesitated, and he looked again, and then, with one… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: He looked and he hesitated, and he looked again, and then, with one last squirm of rage, the Dragon wriggled himself back into the picture and sat down under the palm tree, and the page was a little singed as he went in. Who acts: Horse, one last squirm, rage. 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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 (Horse, one last squirm, rage), 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:pg23661:2:87 # text = He looked and he hesitated, and he looked again, and then, with one last squirm of rage, the Dragon wriggled himself back into the picture and sat down under the palm tree, and the page was a little singed as he went in. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hesitated hesitate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 squirm squirm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wriggled wriggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 down down ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 under under ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 singed singe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 45 as as SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ _ 48 in in ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | Horse | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **hesitate** | past | Horse | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **look** | past | Horse | | | | again | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **wriggle back** | past | one last squirm of rage | Horse | | the picture | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sit down** | past | one last squirm of rage *not said here* | | | the palm tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | | 6 | **singe** | past · passive | | the page | | | | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **go in** | past | Horse | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **squirm** | | rage | | | | | | nom squirm «act intransitive»: of=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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/88/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/)