--- title: He took it outside to the terrace, where the moonlight was as bright… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: He took it outside to the terrace, where the moonlight was as bright as day, and he opened the book, and saw the empty pages with "Butterfly" and "Blue Bird of Paradise" underneath, and then he turned the next page. Who acts: Lionel, moonlight. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Openi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/162/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/) / 162 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 162 He took it outside to the terrace, where the moonlight was as bright as day, and he opened the book, and saw the empty pages with "Butterfly" and "Blue Bird of Paradise" underneath, and then he turned the next page. **Who acts:** Lionel, moonlight · **What happens:** take, be, open, see, turn · **To what, where:** Book, terrace, empty pages, next page 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, moonlight), 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:pg23661:1:162 # text = He took it outside to the terrace, where the moonlight was as bright as day, and he opened the book, and saw the empty pages with "Butterfly" and "Blue Bird of Paradise" underneath, and then he turned the next page. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 outside outside ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 terrace terrace NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 moonlight moonlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Paradise Paradise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Lionel | Book | | the terrace | | outside *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to terrace=Destination | | 2 | **is** | past | the moonlight | | | | day | bright *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **open** | past | Lionel | the book | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | | 4 | **see** | past | Lionel *not said here* | the empty pages | | | | with Butterfly and Blue Bird of Paradise; underneath *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer page=Stimulus | | 5 | **turn** | past | Lionel | the next page | | | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent page=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 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/161/) - next →: [sentence 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/163/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/)