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title: And nobody but Edmund could see that of course the shock of being sw… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And nobody but Edmund could see that of course the shock of being swallowed by the dragon had upset all the maps and put them wrong. Who acts: nobody, dragon. 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 240

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And nobody but Edmund could see that of course the shock of being swallowed by the dragon had upset all the maps and put them wrong.

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**Who acts:** nobody, dragon · **What happens:** see, swallow, upset, put · **To what, where:** course, shock, maps · **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 (nobody, dragon), 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:pg23661:14:240
# text = And nobody but Edmund could see that of course the shock of being swallowed by the dragon had upset all the maps and put them wrong.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	upset	upset	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | nobody | that course |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | gerund · passive | the dragon | the shock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **upset** | past · perfect · passive |  | the shock |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer map=Result |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | nobody *not said here* | maps *= map* |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |

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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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