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title: He drained the silver hunting bottle slung from his shoulder, and st… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He drained the silver hunting bottle slung from his shoulder, and stretched his legs in the hollow tree. Who acts: Prince. 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 69

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He drained the silver hunting bottle slung from his shoulder, and stretched his legs in the hollow tree.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** drain, hunt, sling, stretch · **To what, where:** silver, bottle, shoulder, legs

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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 (Prince), 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:pg23661:13:69
# text = He drained the silver hunting bottle slung from his shoulder, and stretched his legs in the hollow tree.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drained	drain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	slung	sling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drain** | past | Prince | the silver |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent silver=Source |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | bottle |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme |
| 3 | **sling** | participle |  | bottle *not said here* |  | Prince's shoulder |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from shoulder=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **stretch** | past | Prince *not said here* | Prince's legs |  |  |  | in the hollow tree | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Patient in tree=Topic |

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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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