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title: And without another word he went off to his laboratory and worked al… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And without another word he went off to his laboratory and worked all night, boiling different-colored things in crucibles, and copying charms in curious twisted letters from old brown books with mold stains on their yellowy pages. Who acts: King, stains. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Ne
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 13

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And without another word he went off to his laboratory and worked all night, boiling different-colored things in crucibles, and copying charms in curious twisted letters from old brown books with mold stains on their yellowy pages.

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**Who acts:** King, stains · **What happens:** go off, work, boil, color, copy, page · **To what, where:** colored things, charms, curious twisted letters

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, stains), 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:pg23661:10:13
# text = And without another word he went off to his laboratory and worked all night, boiling different-colored things in crucibles, and copying charms in curious twisted letters from old brown books with mold stains on their yellowy pages.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	crucibles	crucible	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
26	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	twisted	twisted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	mold	mold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	stains	stain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	yellowy	yellowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | King |  |  |  |  | without another word; to King's laboratory | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **boil** | gerund | King *not said here* | colored things |  |  |  | in crucibles | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thing=Patient in crucible=Instrument |
| 4 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **copy** | gerund | King *not said here* | charms |  | curious twisted letters from old brown books with mold stains |  | on stains's yellowy pages | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent charm=Theme in letter=Destination |
| 6 | **page** |  | stains *= stain* |  |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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