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title: Tantivy!" and the whole pack charged downhill toward the hollow by t… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Tantivy!" and the whole pack charged downhill toward the hollow by the wood. Who acts: wood. 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 57

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Tantivy!" and the whole pack charged downhill toward the hollow by the wood.

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**Who acts:** wood · **What happens:** charge · **To what, where:** Tantivy

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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 (wood), 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:pg23661:13:57
# text = Tantivy!" and the whole pack charged downhill toward the hollow by the wood.
1	Tantivy	Tantivy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	downhill	downhill	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** *in a quote* | participle · passive | the wood | Tantivy and the whole pack |  |  |  | toward the hollow; downhill *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location subject=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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