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title: All the children promised, and next morning Tina and Johnnie rolled… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: All the children promised, and next morning Tina and Johnnie rolled their big washing tub down the winding stair. Who acts: children, Tina. 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 223

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All the children promised, and next morning Tina and Johnnie rolled their big washing tub down the winding stair.

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**Who acts:** children, Tina · **What happens:** promise, roll, wind · **To what, where:** big washing tub, winding stair

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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 (children, Tina), 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:pg23661:12:223
# text = All the children promised, and next morning Tina and Johnnie rolled their big washing tub down the winding stair.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	Tina	Tina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	stair	stair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | all children |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roll** | past | Tina and Johnnie | children's big washing tub |  | the winding stair | morning |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tub=Theme down stair=Trajectory |
| 3 | **wind** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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