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title: It is the light that shines from the Lone Tower that stands above th… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the light that shines from the Lone Tower that stands above the Nine Whirlpools. Who acts: light, that. 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 60

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It is the light that shines from the Lone Tower that stands above the Nine Whirlpools.

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**Who acts:** light, that · **What happens:** be, shine, stand · **To what, where:** light, Lone Tower, Nine Whirlpools

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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 (light, that), 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:pg23661:10:60
# text = It is the light that shines from the Lone Tower that stands above the Nine Whirlpools.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Lone	Lone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	Whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | light | the light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | present | the light |  |  | the Lone Tower |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | present | that |  |  | the Nine Whirlpools |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above whirlpool=Location |

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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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