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title: They enjoyed themselves very much, but by-and-by the copper treasury… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: They enjoyed themselves very much, but by-and-by the copper treasury began to get warmer and warmer, and suddenly the junior secretary cried out, "Look at the bottle!" Who acts: woods, junior secretary. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 144

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They enjoyed themselves very much, but by-and-by the copper treasury began to get warmer and warmer, and suddenly the junior secretary cried out, "Look at the bottle!"

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**Who acts:** woods, junior secretary · **What happens:** enjoy, begin, get, cry out, look · **To what, where:** woods · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woods, junior secretary), 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:pg23661:13:144
# text = They enjoyed themselves very much, but by-and-by the copper treasury began to get warmer and warmer, and suddenly the junior secretary cried out, "Look at the bottle!"
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	junior	junior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	secretary	secretary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | past | woods *= wood* | woods *= wood* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
| 2 | **begin** | past | woods *= wood* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the copper treasury | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | woods *= wood* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the junior secretary |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at the bottle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bottle=Theme |

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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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