--- title: Effie held her brother's hand very tight, and once when a fat dragon… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Effie held her brother's hand very tight, and once when a fat dragon flopped against her ear she screamed out, and a whole flight of green dragons rose from the field at the sound, and sprawled away across the sky. Who acts: Effie, fat dragon, whole flight. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/7/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/) / 7 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 7 Effie held her brother's hand very tight, and once when a fat dragon flopped against her ear she screamed out, and a whole flight of green dragons rose from the field at the sound, and sprawled away across the sky. **Who acts:** Effie, fat dragon, whole flight · **What happens:** hold, flop, scream out, rise, sprawl away · **To what, where:** hand, ear, field, sky This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Effie, fat dragon, whole flight), 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:pg23661:6:7 # text = Effie held her brother's hand very tight, and once when a fat dragon flopped against her ear she screamed out, and a whole flight of green dragons rose from the field at the sound, and sprawled away across the sky. 1 Effie Effie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 16 advmod _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 flopped flop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 screamed scream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 sprawled sprawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 41 away away ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 across across ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | Effie | Effie's brother's hand | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 2 | **flop** | past | a fat dragon | | | Effie's ear | | once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against ear=Location | | 3 | **scream out** *speech: express* | past | Effie | Effie's ear *not said here* | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Topic | | 4 | **rise** | past | a whole flight of green dragons | | | the field | | at the sound | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at sound=Location | | 5 | **sprawl away** | past | Effie *not said here* | | | the sky | | away *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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. 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