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title: I. The Book of Beasts — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: I. The Book of Beasts 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 68

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I. The Book of Beasts

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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: 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:pg23661:1:68
# text = I. The Book of Beasts
1	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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