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title: Page 152, "chocked" changed to "choked" (nearly choked him) — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 152, "chocked" changed to "choked" (nearly choked him) 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 256

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Page 152, "chocked" changed to "choked" (nearly choked him)

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**What happens:** chock, change, choke · **To what, where:** plenty · **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: 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:pg23661:14:256
# text = Page 152, "chocked" changed to "choked" (nearly choked him)
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	152	152	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	chocked	chock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	choked	choke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	choked	choke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chock** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **choke** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **choke** | past |  |  | plenty |  |  | nearly *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=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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