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title: But when the dawn came he saw the Lone Tower standing dark against t… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the dawn came he saw the Lone Tower standing dark against the pink and primrose of the East, and about its base the sullen swirl of black water, and he heard the wonderful roar of it. Who acts: dawn, Nigel, Lone Tower, roar. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 68

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But when the dawn came he saw the Lone Tower standing dark against the pink and primrose of the East, and about its base the sullen swirl of black water, and he heard the wonderful roar of it.

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**Who acts:** dawn, Nigel, Lone Tower, roar · **What happens:** come, see, stand, hear, roar · **To what, where:** Lone Tower, pink, wonderful roar

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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 (dawn, Nigel, Lone Tower, roar), 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:pg23661:10:68
# text = But when the dawn came he saw the Lone Tower standing dark against the pink and primrose of the East, and about its base the sullen swirl of black water, and he heard the wonderful roar of it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	7	obj	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pink	pink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	primrose	primrose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	swirl	swirl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the dawn |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Nigel | the Lone Tower |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | the Lone Tower *not said here* |  |  | the pink and primrose of the East |  | dark *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against pink=Location |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Nigel | the wonderful roar of roar |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roar=Stimulus |
| 5 | **roar** |  | roar |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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