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title: Then the Prime Minister snatched the book away from the King and shu… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Prime Minister snatched the book away from the King and shut it up on the blank page where the bird had been, and put it on a very high shelf. Who acts: Prime Minister. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 150

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Then the Prime Minister snatched the book away from the King and shut it up on the blank page where the bird had been, and put it on a very high shelf.

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**Who acts:** Prime Minister · **What happens:** snatch, shut up, put · **To what, where:** Book, blank page, high shelf

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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 (Prime Minister), 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:pg23661:1:150
# text = Then the Prime Minister snatched the book away from the King and shut it up on the blank page where the bird had been, and put it on a very high shelf.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	4	compound	_	_
4	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch** | past | the Prime Minister |  |  |  | then | from the King; away *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from king=Source |
| 2 | **shut up** | infinitive | the Prime Minister *not said here* | Book |  | the blank page |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | the Prime Minister *not said here* | Book |  | a high shelf |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shelf=Destination |

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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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