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title: And off he went, leaving the baby between the dragon's fore-paws, la… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And off he went, leaving the baby between the dragon's fore-paws, laughing and crowing with pleasure at the very large purr of it. Who acts: man, purr. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 116

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And off he went, leaving the baby between the dragon's fore-paws, laughing and crowing with pleasure at the very large purr of it.

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**Who acts:** man, purr · **What happens:** go, leave, laugh, crow, purr · **To what, where:** baby, fore paws

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, purr), 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:pg23661:12:116
# text = And off he went, leaving the baby between the dragon's fore-paws, laughing and crowing with pleasure at the very large purr of it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	fore	fore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	crowing	crow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	purr	purr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | man *not said here* | the baby |  | the dragon's fore paws |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Theme between paw=Location |
| 3 | **laugh** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **crow** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with pleasure; at the large purr of purr | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at purr=Stimulus |
| 5 | **purr** |  | purr |  |  |  |  |  | nom purr «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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