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title: But through the blowing and hammering and singing the noise came lou… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But through the blowing and hammering and singing the noise came louder and louder, and the more they tried not to hear it, the more they had to. Who acts: blowing. 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 29

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But through the blowing and hammering and singing the noise came louder and louder, and the more they tried not to hear it, the more they had to.

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**Who acts:** blowing · **What happens:** sing, come, try, not hear, have · **To what, where:** noise, blowing

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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 (blowing), 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:pg23661:12:29
# text = But through the blowing and hammering and singing the noise came louder and louder, and the more they tried not to hear it, the more they had to.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blowing	blowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hammering	hammering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | the noise |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the blowing and hammering |  | loud *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through blowing=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **try** | past | blowing |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | blowing *not said here* | noise |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | past | blowing |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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