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title: The bottle got hotter and hotter in Elfin's hands, because the drago… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The bottle got hotter and hotter in Elfin's hands, because the dragon inside was puffing fire and smoke with all his might--hotter and hotter and hotter--but Elfin held on till they came to the cliff edge, and there was the dark blue sea, and the whirlpool going around and around. Who acts: bottle, 
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 214

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The bottle got hotter and hotter in Elfin's hands, because the dragon inside was puffing fire and smoke with all his might--hotter and hotter and hotter--but Elfin held on till they came to the cliff edge, and there was the dark blue sea, and the whirlpool going around and around.

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**Who acts:** bottle, dragon, Elfin, hands, dark blue sea, whirlpool · **What happens:** get, puff, hold on, come, be, go · **To what, where:** fire, cliff edge

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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 (bottle, dragon, Elfin, hands), 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:pg23661:13:214
# text = The bottle got hotter and hotter in Elfin's hands, because the dragon inside was puffing fire and smoke with all his might--hotter and hotter and hotter--but Elfin held on till they came to the cliff edge, and there was the dark blue sea, and the whirlpool going around and around.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	puffing	puff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	46	expl	_	_
46	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
56	around	around	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	around	around	ADV	RB	_	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the bottle |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **puff** | past · progressive | the dragon | fire and smoke |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Source |
| 3 | **hold on** | past | Elfin |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  | the cliff edge |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **be** | past | the dark blue sea |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | gerund | the whirlpool |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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