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title: The dragon seemed to be made almost entirely of iron armor--a sort o… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The dragon seemed to be made almost entirely of iron armor--a sort of tawny, red-rust color it was; from damp, no doubt--and under it he seemed to be covered with something furry. Who acts: dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its dependency tree and the
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 63

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The dragon seemed to be made almost entirely of iron armor--a sort of tawny, red-rust color it was; from damp, no doubt--and under it he seemed to be covered with something furry.

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**Who acts:** dragon · **What happens:** seem, make, cover, sort · **To what, where:** several, tawny rust color

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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 (dragon), 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:pg23661:12:63
# text = The dragon seemed to be made almost entirely of iron armor--a sort of tawny, red-rust color it was; from damp, no doubt--and under it he seemed to be covered with something furry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	tawny	tawny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	xcomp	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	38	obl	_	_
41	furry	furry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the dragon |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | the dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 3 | **seem** | past | Dragon |  |  | several |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **cover** | to-infinitive · passive | Dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with something | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with something=Theme |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | tawny rust color |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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