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title: This annoyed the dragon so much that he put out all his strength--sp… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: This annoyed the dragon so much that he put out all his strength--spread his great purple wings, and tried to fly at her. Who acts: This, Yah, annoyed dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 134

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This annoyed the dragon so much that he put out all his strength--spread his great purple wings, and tried to fly at her.

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**Who acts:** This, Yah, annoyed dragon · **What happens:** dragon, put out, spread, try, fly · **To what, where:** strength, great purple wings

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Yah, annoyed dragon), 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:pg23661:4:134
# text = This annoyed the dragon so much that he put out all his strength--spread his great purple wings, and tried to fly at her.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dragon** |  | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put out** | past | Yah | Yah's strength |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent strength=Goal |
| 3 | **spread** | past | the annoyed dragon | Yah's great purple wings |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | past | the annoyed dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the annoyed dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Princess | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=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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