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title: The grave gentlemen led the way to a coach with eight white horses,… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The grave gentlemen led the way to a coach with eight white horses, which was drawn up in front of the house where Lionel lived. Who acts: grave gentlemen, Lionel. 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 81

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The grave gentlemen led the way to a coach with eight white horses, which was drawn up in front of the house where Lionel lived.

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**Who acts:** grave gentlemen, Lionel · **What happens:** lead, draw up, live · **To what, where:** way, coach, eight white horses, front

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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 (grave gentlemen, Lionel), 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:pg23661:1:81
# text = The grave gentlemen led the way to a coach with eight white horses, which was drawn up in front of the house where Lionel lived.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
25	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the grave gentlemen | the way |  | a coach |  | with eight white horses | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to coach=Destination |
| 2 | **draw up** | past · passive |  | eight white horses |  | front of the house |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in front=Destination |
| 3 | **live** | past | Lionel |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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