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title: And as Sabrinetta stood on her tower she saw a shaking and a twistin… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And as Sabrinetta stood on her tower she saw a shaking and a twisting of the rose-thorny hedge, and then something very bright and shining wriggled out through it into the ferny ditch and back again. Who acts: Sabrinetta, Princess. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon],
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 14

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And as Sabrinetta stood on her tower she saw a shaking and a twisting of the rose-thorny hedge, and then something very bright and shining wriggled out through it into the ferny ditch and back again.

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**Who acts:** Sabrinetta, Princess · **What happens:** stand, see, wriggle out, twist · **To what, where:** tower, shaking, hedge, thorny hedge

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sabrinetta, Princess), 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:pg23661:13:14
# text = And as Sabrinetta stood on her tower she saw a shaking and a twisting of the rose-thorny hedge, and then something very bright and shining wriggled out through it into the ferny ditch and back again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Sabrinetta	Sabrinetta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	twisting	twisting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	ferny	ferny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Sabrinetta |  |  | Princess's tower |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tower=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | Princess | a shaking and a twisting of the thorny hedge |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shaking=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wriggle out** | gerund · passive | Princess *not said here* |  |  | hedge |  | into the ferny ditch | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **twist** |  |  | the thorny hedge |  |  |  |  | nom twisting «act 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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