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title: "Just this one," cried Lionel, laying his hands on the cover of a gr… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Just this one," cried Lionel, laying his hands on the cover of a great brown book that lay on the study table. Who acts: Lionel, great brown book. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 139

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"Just this one," cried Lionel, laying his hands on the cover of a great brown book that lay on the study table.

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**Who acts:** Lionel, great brown book · **What happens:** cry, lay, lie · **To what, where:** hands, cover, study table

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lionel, great brown book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg23661:1:139
# text = "Just this one," cried Lionel, laying his hands on the cover of a great brown book that lay on the study table.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Lionel |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | gerund | Lionel *not said here* | Lionel's hands |  | the cover of a great brown book |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on cover=Destination |
| 3 | **lie** | past | a great brown book |  |  | the study table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |

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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.

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**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.

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