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title: Presently, over the noise of the bellows and over the clank of the i… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently, over the noise of the bellows and over the clank of the iron, there came another sound. Who acts: bellows. 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 24

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Presently, over the noise of the bellows and over the clank of the iron, there came another sound.

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**Who acts:** bellows · **What happens:** come, noise, clank · **To what, where:** sound, noise, iron

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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 (bellows), 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:pg23661:12:24
# text = Presently, over the noise of the bellows and over the clank of the iron, there came another sound.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	clank	clank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | another sound |  | the noise of the bellows and the clank of the iron; there |  | presently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 2 | **noise** |  | the bellows and the clank of the iron |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **clank** |  |  | the iron |  |  |  |  | nom clank «event 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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