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title: Now he stood once more between warm earth and blue sky, and looked d… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Now he stood once more between warm earth and blue sky, and looked down on the green plain dotted with fruit trees and red-roofed farms and plots of gold corn. Who acts: shower. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 105

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Now he stood once more between warm earth and blue sky, and looked down on the green plain dotted with fruit trees and red-roofed farms and plots of gold corn.

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**Who acts:** shower · **What happens:** stand, look down, dot, roof, plot · **To what, where:** warm earth, green plain, gold corn

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shower), 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:pg23661:14:105
# text = Now he stood once more between warm earth and blue sky, and looked down on the green plain dotted with fruit trees and red-roofed farms and plots of gold corn.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	dotted	dot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	roofed	roof	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	plots	plot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | shower |  |  | warm earth and blue sky | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between earth=Location |
| 2 | **look down** | past | shower *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the green plain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on plain=Theme |
| 3 | **dot** | participle |  | the green plain *not said here* |  |  |  | with fruit trees and roofed farms and plots of gold corn | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tree=Theme |
| 4 | **roof** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **plot** |  |  | gold corn |  |  |  |  | nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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