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title: But the next day he wanted another look, so he took the book out int… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But the next day he wanted another look, so he took the book out into the garden, and when he undid the clasps with the rubies and turquoises, the book opened all by itself at the picture with "Dragon" underneath, and the sun shone full on the page. Who acts: King, book, sun. A sentence of «The Book
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 165

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But the next day he wanted another look, so he took the book out into the garden, and when he undid the clasps with the rubies and turquoises, the book opened all by itself at the picture with "Dragon" underneath, and the sun shone full on the page.

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**Who acts:** King, book, sun · **What happens:** want, take out, undo, open, shine · **To what, where:** look, book, garden, clasps, picture, page

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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 (King, book, sun), 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:pg23661:1:165
# text = But the next day he wanted another look, so he took the book out into the garden, and when he undid the clasps with the rubies and turquoises, the book opened all by itself at the picture with "Dragon" underneath, and the sun shone full on the page.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	undid	undo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	clasps	clasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	turquoises	turquoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obl	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
45	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
51	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | King | another look |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme |
| 2 | **take out** | past | King | the book |  | the garden |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 3 | **undo** | past | King | the clasps |  |  |  | with the rubies and turquoises | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent clasp=Patient with ruby=Instrument |
| 4 | **open** | past | the book |  |  | the picture with Dragon |  | by Book; underneath *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location |
| 5 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  | the page |  | full *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on page=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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