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title: Edmund shut his eyes, for though his master was in the town, the ami… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Edmund shut his eyes, for though his master was in the town, the amiable Edmund shrank from beholding the awful sight. Who acts: Edmund, master, amiable Edmund. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 112

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Edmund shut his eyes, for though his master was in the town, the amiable Edmund shrank from beholding the awful sight.

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**Who acts:** Edmund, master, amiable Edmund · **What happens:** shut, be, shrink, behold · **To what, where:** eyes, awful sight

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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 (Edmund, master, amiable Edmund), 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:pg23661:14:112
# text = Edmund shut his eyes, for though his master was in the town, the amiable Edmund shrank from beholding the awful sight.
1	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	amiable	amiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	beholding	behold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | past | Edmund | shower's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | shower's master |  |  |  |  | for the town | tree rules |
| 3 | **shrink** | past | the amiable Edmund |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **behold** | gerund | the amiable Edmund *not said here* | the awful sight |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |

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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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