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description: And all the time, from the very first, the day of the Princess's deliverance was coming, creeping nearer, and nearer, and nearer. Who acts: day, Princess. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 45

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And all the time, from the very first, the day of the Princess's deliverance was coming, creeping nearer, and nearer, and nearer.

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**Who acts:** day, Princess · **What happens:** come, creep, deliver

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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 (day, Princess), 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:pg23661:10:45
# text = And all the time, from the very first, the day of the Princess's deliverance was coming, creeping nearer, and nearer, and nearer.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · progressive | the day of the Princess's deliverance |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund | the day of the Princess's deliverance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **deliver** |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom deliverance «act 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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