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title: And on the rocky ledge overhanging the sea he saw a Princess as beau… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the rocky ledge overhanging the sea he saw a Princess as beautiful as the day, with golden hair and a green gown--and he went out to meet her. Who acts: rocky ledge, Nigel. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 81

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And on the rocky ledge overhanging the sea he saw a Princess as beautiful as the day, with golden hair and a green gown--and he went out to meet her.

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**Who acts:** rocky ledge, Nigel · **What happens:** overhang, see, go out, meet · **To what, where:** sea, Princess, rocky ledge

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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 (rocky ledge, Nigel), 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:pg23661:10:81
# text = And on the rocky ledge overhanging the sea he saw a Princess as beautiful as the day, with golden hair and a green gown--and he went out to meet her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	overhanging	overhang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overhang** | gerund | the rocky ledge *not said here* | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Nigel | a Princess |  | the rocky ledge |  | with golden hair and a green gown | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go out** | past | Nigel |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Nigel *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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