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title: The minute Nurse let go for a moment Lionel bolted off without waiti… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The minute Nurse let go for a moment Lionel bolted off without waiting for his clean handkerchief, and in the drawing room there were two very grave-looking gentlemen in red robes with fur, and gold coronets with velvet sticking up out of the middle like the cream in the very expensive jam tarts. Wh
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 74

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The minute Nurse let go for a moment Lionel bolted off without waiting for his clean handkerchief, and in the drawing room there were two very grave-looking gentlemen in red robes with fur, and gold coronets with velvet sticking up out of the middle like the cream in the very expensive jam tarts.

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**Who acts:** minute Nurse, velvet · **What happens:** let, go, bolt off, wait, look, stick up · **To what, where:** drawing room, moment Lionel, middle

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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 (minute Nurse, velvet), 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:pg23661:1:74
# text = The minute Nurse let go for a moment Lionel bolted off without waiting for his clean handkerchief, and in the drawing room there were two very grave-looking gentlemen in red robes with fur, and gold coronets with velvet sticking up out of the middle like the cream in the very expensive jam tarts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Lionel	lionel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	coronets	coronet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	out	out	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
54	very	very	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
56	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **let** | past | the minute Nurse |  |  | the drawing room |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | the minute Nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a moment Lionel | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for lionel=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **bolt off** | participle |  | a moment Lionel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for Lionel's clean handkerchief | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **stick up** | gerund | velvet *not said here* |  |  | the middle |  | like the cream; in the expensive jam tarts | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out middle=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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