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title: She took the dragonproof bottle, made of burnished brass, and ran ba… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: She took the dragonproof bottle, made of burnished brass, and ran back to the wood, and to the dell, where Elfin was sitting among his sleek black pigs, waiting for her. Who acts: Dragon, Elfin. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 201

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She took the dragonproof bottle, made of burnished brass, and ran back to the wood, and to the dell, where Elfin was sitting among his sleek black pigs, waiting for her.

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**Who acts:** Dragon, Elfin · **What happens:** take, make, burnish, run back, sit, wait · **To what, where:** dragonproof bottle, dell

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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 (Dragon, Elfin), 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:pg23661:13:201
# text = She took the dragonproof bottle, made of burnished brass, and ran back to the wood, and to the dell, where Elfin was sitting among his sleek black pigs, waiting for her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dragonproof	dragonproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	burnished	burnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dell	dell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	sleek	sleek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	parataxis	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Dragon | the dragonproof bottle |  | the dell |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme to dell=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the dragonproof bottle *not said here* |  |  |  | of burnished brass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **burnish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run back** | past | Dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the wood *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wood=Result |
| 5 | **sit** | past · progressive | Elfin |  |  |  |  | among Elfin's sleek black pigs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among pig=Location |
| 6 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for Dragon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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