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title: There was a round iron thing in the floor, like the ones the men sho… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a round iron thing in the floor, like the ones the men shoot the coals down into your cellar, only much larger. Who acts: round iron thing, men. 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 178

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There was a round iron thing in the floor, like the ones the men shoot the coals down into your cellar, only much larger.

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**Who acts:** round iron thing, men · **What happens:** be, shoot down · **To what, where:** coals, cellar

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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 (round iron thing, men), 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:pg23661:14:178
# text = There was a round iron thing in the floor, like the ones the men shoot the coals down into your cellar, only much larger.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shoot	shoot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a round iron thing in the floor |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shoot down** | present | the men | the coals |  | your cellar |  | like the ones; down *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coal=Theme into cellar=Destination |

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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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