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title: So they went, and the pigs came after, moving in stately blackness,… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went, and the pigs came after, moving in stately blackness, two by two. Who acts: Sabrinetta, 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 259

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So they went, and the pigs came after, moving in stately blackness, two by two.

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**Who acts:** Sabrinetta, pigs · **What happens:** go, come, move · **To what, where:** blackness

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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, 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:pg23661:13:259
# text = So they went, and the pigs came after, moving in stately blackness, two by two.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	after	after	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	blackness	blackness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Sabrinetta |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the pigs |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | the pigs *not said here* |  |  | blackness |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in blackness=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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