--- title: He moved slowly off, and the snow-wreaths that bound the children to… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: He moved slowly off, and the snow-wreaths that bound the children to the Pole gave way with a snap, and there was the dragon, crawling south--with Jane and George on his great, scaly, icy shining back. Who acts: friend, snow wreaths. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/32/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/) / 32 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 32 He moved slowly off, and the snow-wreaths that bound the children to the Pole gave way with a snap, and there was the dragon, crawling south--with Jane and George on his great, scaly, icy shining back. **Who acts:** friend, snow wreaths · **What happens:** move, bound, give, be, crawl, shine back · **To what, where:** great, children, way, dragon This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, snow wreaths), 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:pg23661:9:32 # text = He moved slowly off, and the snow-wreaths that bound the children to the Pole gave way with a snap, and there was the dragon, crawling south--with Jane and George on his great, scaly, icy shining back. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 off off ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 wreaths wreath NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 bound bound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 csubj _ _ 19 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 snap snap NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 crawling crawl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 31 south south ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Jane Jane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 scaly scaly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ _ 44 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ _ 45 back back ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | past | friend | | | friend's great | | with Jane and George; off *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on great=Trajectory | | 2 | **bound** | present | the snow wreaths | the children | | | | to the Pole | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location child=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | the snow wreaths | way | | | | with a snap | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | past | | the dragon | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **crawl** | gerund | friend *not said here* | | | | | south *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **shine back** | gerund | friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP 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. 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/33/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/9/)