--- title: Boys brought barrowloads of dead dragons, and children on their way… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Boys brought barrowloads of dead dragons, and children on their way home from morning school would call in to leave the handful or two of little dragons they had brought in their satchels, or carried in their knotted pocket handkerchiefs. Who acts: Boys, little dragons. A sentence of «The Book of Dr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/5/81/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/5/) / 81 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 81 Boys brought barrowloads of dead dragons, and children on their way home from morning school would call in to leave the handful or two of little dragons they had brought in their satchels, or carried in their knotted pocket handkerchiefs. **Who acts:** Boys, little dragons · **What happens:** bring, call in, leave, carry, knot · **To what, where:** barrowloads, way, morning school, handful, satchels, knotted pocket handkerchiefs This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boys, little dragons), 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:pg23661:5:81 # text = Boys brought barrowloads of dead dragons, and children on their way home from morning school would call in to leave the handful or two of little dragons they had brought in their satchels, or carried in their knotted pocket handkerchiefs. 1 Boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 barrowloads barrowload NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 13 home home ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 in in ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 satchels satchel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 40 knotted knot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 41 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 handkerchiefs handkerchief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | Boys | barrowloads of dead dragons and children | | children's way | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent barrowload=Theme on way=Destination | | 2 | **call in** *speech: assert* | would | | | | morning school | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from school=Source | | 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | | the handful of little dragons | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | | 4 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | little dragons *not said here* | barrowloads *= barrowload* | | barrowloads's satchels | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | participle | | barrowloads's satchels *not said here* | | barrowloads's knotted pocket handkerchiefs | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in handkerchief=Location | | 6 | **knot** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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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