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title: So before the dragon had time to look through the town again for her… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So before the dragon had time to look through the town again for her drakling, the voice of the drakling itself was heard howling miserably from inside the mountain, because Edmund was pinching its tail as hard as he could in the round iron door, like the one where the men pour the coals out of the 
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 210

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So before the dragon had time to look through the town again for her drakling, the voice of the drakling itself was heard howling miserably from inside the mountain, because Edmund was pinching its tail as hard as he could in the round iron door, like the one where the men pour the coals out of the sacks into the cellar.

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**Who acts:** town, Edmund, men · **What happens:** have, look, hear, howl, pinch, pour · **To what, where:** town, mountain, tail, coals, sacks

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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 (town, Edmund, 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:pg23661:14:210
# text = So before the dragon had time to look through the town again for her drakling, the voice of the drakling itself was heard howling miserably from inside the mountain, because Edmund was pinching its tail as hard as he could in the round iron door, like the one where the men pour the coals out of the sacks into the cellar.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	pinching	pinch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	_
52	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	55	advmod	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
55	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
58	out	out	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
62	into	into	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  | before the dragon; time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the town | again | for Cockatrice's drakling and the voice of the drakling | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent through town=Location for drakling=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | town |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **howl** | gerund | town *not said here* |  |  | the mountain |  | miserably *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pinch** | past · progressive | Edmund | town's tail |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 6 | **pour** | present | the men | the coals |  | the sacks |  | into the cellar | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent coal=Theme out sack=Initial\_Location 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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