--- title: Just before the door stood fifty pairs of copper shoes, and no one c… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Just before the door stood fifty pairs of copper shoes, and no one could have looked at them for a moment without seeing what sort of feet they were made for, for each shoe had five holes in it for the drakling's five claws. Who acts: door, shoe. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/146/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/) / 146 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 146 Just before the door stood fifty pairs of copper shoes, and no one could have looked at them for a moment without seeing what sort of feet they were made for, for each shoe had five holes in it for the drakling's five claws. **Who acts:** door, shoe · **What happens:** stand, look, see, make, have, sort · **To what, where:** fifty pairs, one, sort, doors, five holes, hole 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 (door, shoe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:14:146 # text = Just before the door stood fifty pairs of copper shoes, and no one could have looked at them for a moment without seeing what sort of feet they were made for, for each shoe had five holes in it for the drakling's five claws. 1 Just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 17 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 without without SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 25 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 26 det _ _ 26 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 drakling drakling NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 's 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ _ 47 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the door | fifty pairs of copper shoes | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus | | 2 | **look** | could · perfect · passive | | no one | | | moment | at doors *= door* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | | 3 | **see** | gerund | | what sort of feet | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | past · passive | | doors *= door* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **have** | past | each shoe | five holes | | hole | | for the drakling's five claws | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | | 6 | **sort** | | | feet | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/145/) - next →: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/147/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)