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title: So there was the drakling, fast by the silly tail of it, and there w… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So there was the drakling, fast by the silly tail of it, and there was Edmund very busy and important and very pleased with himself, hurrying back to the cockatrice. 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 188

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So there was the drakling, fast by the silly tail of it, and there was Edmund very busy and important and very pleased with himself, hurrying back to the cockatrice.

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**What happens:** be, hurry

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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: 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:pg23661:14:188
# text = So there was the drakling, fast by the silly tail of it, and there was Edmund very busy and important and very pleased with himself, hurrying back to the cockatrice.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | with drakling | tree rules |
| 4 | **hurry** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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