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title: Those whirlpools were made by the enchanter-King's dropping nine dro… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Those whirlpools were made by the enchanter-King's dropping nine drops of his blood into the sea. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 58

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Those whirlpools were made by the enchanter-King's dropping nine drops of his blood into the sea.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** make, drop · **To what, where:** whirlpools, nine drops, sea

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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 (King), 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:pg23661:11:58
# text = Those whirlpools were made by the enchanter-King's dropping nine drops of his blood into the sea.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | that whirlpools |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **drop** | present · progressive | King | nine drops of King's blood |  | the sea |  | enchanter *vocative* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme into sea=Destination |

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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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