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title: As soon as the woods were awake, she used to run up the twisting tur… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the woods were awake, she used to run up the twisting turret-stairs with her little bare feet, and stand on the top of the tower in her white bed-gown, and kiss her hands to the sun and to the woods and to the sleeping town, and say: "Good morning, pretty world!" Who acts: woods, Princess
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 5

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As soon as the woods were awake, she used to run up the twisting turret-stairs with her little bare feet, and stand on the top of the tower in her white bed-gown, and kiss her hands to the sun and to the woods and to the sleeping town, and say: "Good morning, pretty world!"

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**Who acts:** woods, Princess · **What happens:** be, use, run up, twist, stand, kiss · **To what, where:** twisting turret stairs, top, hands · **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, Princess), 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:pg23661:13:5
# text = As soon as the woods were awake, she used to run up the twisting turret-stairs with her little bare feet, and stand on the top of the tower in her white bed-gown, and kiss her hands to the sun and to the woods and to the sleeping town, and say: "Good morning, pretty world!"
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
16	turret	turret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
35	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	62	punct	_	_
60	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
65	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the woods |  |  |  |  | awake, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **run up** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | the twisting turret stairs |  |  |  | with Princess's little bare feet | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Product with foot=Material |
| 4 | **twist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  | the top of the tower |  | in Princess's white bed gown | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location |
| 6 | **kiss** | infinitive |  | Princess's hands |  |  |  | to the sun and the woods and the sleeping town | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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