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title: Other boys played truant too, of course--and these went nutting or b… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Other boys played truant too, of course--and these went nutting or blackberrying or wild plum gathering, but Edmund never went on the side of the town where the green woods and hedges grew. Who acts: Other boys, these, Edmund, green woods. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Littl
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 21

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Other boys played truant too, of course--and these went nutting or blackberrying or wild plum gathering, but Edmund never went on the side of the town where the green woods and hedges grew.

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**Who acts:** Other boys, these, Edmund, green woods · **What happens:** play, go, nut, blackberry, gather, not go · **To what, where:** truant, side

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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 (Other boys, these, Edmund, green woods), 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:pg23661:14:21
# text = Other boys played truant too, of course--and these went nutting or blackberrying or wild plum gathering, but Edmund never went on the side of the town where the green woods and hedges grew.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	truant	truant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	nutting	nut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	blackberrying	blackberry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Other boys | truant |  |  |  | of course | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truant=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | these |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **nut** | gerund | these *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **blackberry** | gerund | these *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **gather** | gerund | these *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **go** | past | Edmund |  |  | the side of the town |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 7 | **grow** | past | the green woods and hedges |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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