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title: The wood was very still--no crashing of branches and no smell of bur… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The wood was very still--no crashing of branches and no smell of burning came to alarm the Prince. Who acts: wood, burning. 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 68

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The wood was very still--no crashing of branches and no smell of burning came to alarm the Prince.

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**Who acts:** wood, burning · **What happens:** be, come, smell

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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, burning), 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:pg23661:13:68
# text = The wood was very still--no crashing of branches and no smell of burning came to alarm the Prince.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	crashing	crashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wood and no crashing of branches and no smell of burning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the wood and no crashing of branches and no smell of burning |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **smell** |  | burning |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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