--- title: Now the room in which the dragon slept was just above the stable, an… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now the room in which the dragon slept was just above the stable, and at the sound of the neighing he woke and cried to the horse, ‘What is the matter, my treasure? is anything hurting you?’ Who acts: dragon, room, neighing, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, room, neighing, my), 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:pg5615:1:87 # text = Now the room in which the dragon slept was just above the stable, and at the sound of the neighing he woke and cried to the horse, ‘What is the matter, my treasure? is anything hurting you?’ 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 above above ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 21 neighing neigh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 csubj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 nmod _ _ 41 hurting hurt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 acl _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | past | the dragon | | | the room | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | | 2 | **is** | past | the room | | | the stable and the sound | now | | tree rules | | 3 | **neigh** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wake** | past | Dragon | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Dragon *not said here* | | the horse | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to horse=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** | present | | the matter | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | neighing | | | | | of anything | tree rules | | 8 | **hurt** | gerund | | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | | 9 | **treasure** | | my | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/88/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/)