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title: It began with Turkish delight and halfpenny buns, and went on with o… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: It began with Turkish delight and halfpenny buns, and went on with oranges, toffee, coconut ice, peppermints, jam puffs, raspberry-noyeau, ice creams, and meringues, and ended with bull's-eyes and gingerbread and acid drops. Who acts: feast. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Drag
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 266

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It began with Turkish delight and halfpenny buns, and went on with oranges, toffee, coconut ice, peppermints, jam puffs, raspberry-noyeau, ice creams, and meringues, and ended with bull's-eyes and gingerbread and acid drops.

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**Who acts:** feast · **What happens:** begin, go on, jam, end · **To what, where:** puffs

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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 (feast), 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:pg23661:12:266
# text = It began with Turkish delight and halfpenny buns, and went on with oranges, toffee, coconut ice, peppermints, jam puffs, raspberry-noyeau, ice creams, and meringues, and ended with bull's-eyes and gingerbread and acid drops.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	halfpenny	halfpenny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	buns	bun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	toffee	toffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	peppermints	peppermint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	jam	jam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	puffs	puff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	noyeau	noyeau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	creams	cream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	meringues	meringue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	bull's	bull's	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | feast |  |  |  |  | with Turkish delight and halfpenny buns | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with delight=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **go on** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with oranges and toffee and coconut ice and peppermints | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **jam** | present |  | puffs and raspberry noyeau and ice creams |  |  |  | meringues *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme puff=Destination |
| 4 | **end** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with bull's eyes and gingerbread and acid drops | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with eye=Subeventuality |

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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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