--- title: Of course this pulled his tail, and pulled it very hard, so hard tha… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Of course this pulled his tail, and pulled it very hard, so hard that as he pulled the tail _had_ to come, and the pillar _had_ to come around with the tail, and the island _had_ to come around with the pillar, and in another minute the tail was loose, and the island was spinning around exactly like --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/4/135/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/4/) / 135 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 135 Of course this pulled his tail, and pulled it very hard, so hard that as he pulled the tail \_had\_ to come, and the pillar \_had\_ to come around with the tail, and the island \_had\_ to come around with the pillar, and in another minute the tail was loose, and the island was spinning around exactly like a top. **Who acts:** Yah, \_, tail, island · **What happens:** pull, \_, come, come around, be, spin around · **To what, where:** tail, pillar, island 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 (Yah, \_, tail, island), 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:pg23661:4:135 # text = Of course this pulled his tail, and pulled it very hard, so hard that as he pulled the tail _had_ to come, and the pillar _had_ to come around with the tail, and the island _had_ to come around with the pillar, and in another minute the tail was loose, and the island was spinning around exactly like a top. 1 Of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 fixed _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 4 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 24 _ _ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 33 _ _ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 around around ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 46 _ _ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 xcomp _ _ 49 around around ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 50 with with ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 57 det _ _ 57 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 60 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 cop _ _ 61 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ _ 66 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ _ 67 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 61 advcl _ _ 68 around around ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 69 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 72 advmod _ _ 70 like like ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 71 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | past | | Yah's tail | | | | of this; hard *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent tail=Theme of this=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **pull** | past | | tail | | | | hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **pull** | past | Yah | the tail | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 4 | **\_** | past · perfect | \_ | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | \_ *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **\_** | past · perfect · passive | | the pillar | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come around** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with the tail; around *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **\_** | past · perfect · passive | | the island | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **come around** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with the pillar; around *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **is** | past | the tail | | | | minute | loose *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **spin around** | past · progressive | the island | | | | | like a top; around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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