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title: And off they went, with the five and seventy pigs trotting steadily… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And off they went, with the five and seventy pigs trotting steadily after them in a long black procession. Who acts: cliffs, five pigs. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 213

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And off they went, with the five and seventy pigs trotting steadily after them in a long black procession.

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**Who acts:** cliffs, five pigs · **What happens:** go, trot · **To what, where:** long black procession

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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 (cliffs, five pigs), 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:pg23661:13:213
# text = And off they went, with the five and seventy pigs trotting steadily after them in a long black procession.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
12	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | cliffs *= cliff* |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **trot** | gerund | the five pigs *not said here* |  |  | a long black procession | after cliffs *= cliff* | steadily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in procession=Trajectory |

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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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