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title: John timidly went around when the dragon took his claw away; and sur… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: John timidly went around when the dragon took his claw away; and sure enough, the dragon's wing was hanging loose, and several of the plates near the joint certainly wanted riveting. Who acts: John, dragon, wing, several. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 62

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John timidly went around when the dragon took his claw away; and sure enough, the dragon's wing was hanging loose, and several of the plates near the joint certainly wanted riveting.

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**Who acts:** John, dragon, wing, several · **What happens:** go around, take away, hang, want, rivet · **To what, where:** claw

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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 (John, dragon, wing, several), 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:pg23661:12:62
# text = John timidly went around when the dragon took his claw away; and sure enough, the dragon's wing was hanging loose, and several of the plates near the joint certainly wanted riveting.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	timidly	timidly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	around	around	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
23	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	near	near	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	riveting	rivet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go around** | past | John |  |  |  |  | around, timidly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take away** | past | the dragon | Dragon's claw |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | past · progressive | the dragon's wing |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | past | several |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **rivet** *not said to happen* | gerund | several *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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