--- title: The dragon ate up the buns, nodded rather ungraciously, and began to… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: The dragon ate up the buns, nodded rather ungraciously, and began to lick his wing again. Who acts: dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/3/98/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/3/) / 98 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 98 The dragon ate up the buns, nodded rather ungraciously, and began to lick his wing again. **Who acts:** dragon · **What happens:** eat up, nod, begin, lick · **To what, where:** buns, wing This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), 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:pg23661:3:98 # text = The dragon ate up the buns, nodded rather ungraciously, and began to lick his wing again. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 buns bun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 nodded nod VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 rather rather ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 ungraciously ungraciously ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 lick lick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat up** | past | the dragon | the buns | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Patient | | 2 | **nod** | past | the dragon *not said here* | | | | | ungraciously *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **begin** | past | the dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **lick** | to-infinitive | the dragon *not said here* | dragon's wing | | | again | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wing=Source | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/3/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/3/99/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/3/)