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title: At that moment there was a soft, silky rush behind the Princess, and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: At that moment there was a soft, silky rush behind the Princess, and there was her mother, the Queen, who had slipped out of the stone statue at the moment the griffin was dead, and now came hurrying to take her dear daughter in her arms. Who acts: mother, Queen, griffin. A sentence of «The Book of 
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 51

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At that moment there was a soft, silky rush behind the Princess, and there was her mother, the Queen, who had slipped out of the stone statue at the moment the griffin was dead, and now came hurrying to take her dear daughter in her arms.

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**Who acts:** mother, Queen, griffin · **What happens:** be, slip out, come, hurry, take · **To what, where:** soft silky rush, stone statue, dear daughter, arms

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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 (mother, Queen, griffin), 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:pg23661:11:51
# text = At that moment there was a soft, silky rush behind the Princess, and there was her mother, the Queen, who had slipped out of the stone statue at the moment the griffin was dead, and now came hurrying to take her dear daughter in her arms.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	silky	silky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	slipped	slip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	parataxis	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
43	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	xcomp	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a soft silky rush |  |  | moment | behind the Princess | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | Princess's mother |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **slip out** | past · perfect | the Queen | the stone statue |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent statue=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the griffin |  |  |  | moment | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | the griffin *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hurry** | gerund | the griffin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | the griffin *not said here* | mother's dear daughter |  | mother's arms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Value in arm=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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