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title: So they went in, and with the help of nine other children they lifte… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went in, and with the help of nine other children they lifted the washing tub in and set it down by the dragon. Who acts: children. 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 228

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So they went in, and with the help of nine other children they lifted the washing tub in and set it down by the dragon.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** go in, lift, set down, help · **To what, where:** washing tub, tub, nine other children

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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), 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:pg23661:12:228
# text = So they went in, and with the help of nine other children they lifted the washing tub in and set it down by the dragon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lift** | past | children *= child* | the washing tub |  |  |  | with the help of nine other children | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tub=Theme |
| 3 | **set down** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | tub |  |  |  | by the dragon | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by dragon=Destination |
| 4 | **help** |  |  | nine other children |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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