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title: And Edmund, doing exactly as he had been told, for a wonder, caught… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And Edmund, doing exactly as he had been told, for a wonder, caught the end of the drakling's tail and ran the iron hook through it so that the drakling was held fast. Who acts: Edmund. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 185

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And Edmund, doing exactly as he had been told, for a wonder, caught the end of the drakling's tail and ran the iron hook through it so that the drakling was held fast.

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**Who acts:** Edmund · **What happens:** do, tell, catch, run, hold · **To what, where:** drakling, wonder, end, iron hook, hook · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg23661:14:185
# text = And Edmund, doing exactly as he had been told, for a wonder, caught the end of the drakling's tail and ran the iron hook through it so that the drakling was held fast.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
31	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
37	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | Edmund *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | drakling | a wonder |  |  | exactly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient wonder=Topic |
| 3 | **catch** | past | Edmund | the end of the drakling's tail |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | Edmund *not said here* | the iron hook |  | hook |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hook=Theme through it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the drakling |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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