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title: But it never uttered the second half of that scream, for now it knew… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But it never uttered the second half of that scream, for now it knew suddenly that it was sleepy--it turned to hurry back to dry land, because sleeping near whirlpools is so unsafe. Who acts: scream, sleeping. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tr
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 32

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But it never uttered the second half of that scream, for now it knew suddenly that it was sleepy--it turned to hurry back to dry land, because sleeping near whirlpools is so unsafe.

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**Who acts:** scream, sleeping · **What happens:** not utter, know, be, turn, hurry back, sleep · **To what, where:** second half, dry land, whirlpools

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scream, sleeping), 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:pg23661:11:32
# text = But it never uttered the second half of that scream, for now it knew suddenly that it was sleepy--it turned to hurry back to dry land, because sleeping near whirlpools is so unsafe.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	csubj	_	_
33	near	near	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **utter** *speech: other* | past | scream | the second half of that scream |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent half=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | past | scream |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | scream |  |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | past | scream |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurry back** | to-infinitive | scream *not said here* |  |  | dry land |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination |
| 6 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  | whirlpools |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | sleeping |  |  |  |  | unsafe *property* | tree rules |

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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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