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title: He had invented, all by himself, a very ingenious and new kind of la… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He had invented, all by himself, a very ingenious and new kind of lantern, made with a turnip and a tumbler, and when he took the candle out of Granny's bedroom candlestick to put in it, it gave quite a splendid light. Who acts: boy, candle. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Lit
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 26

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He had invented, all by himself, a very ingenious and new kind of lantern, made with a turnip and a tumbler, and when he took the candle out of Granny's bedroom candlestick to put in it, it gave quite a splendid light.

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**Who acts:** boy, candle · **What happens:** invent, make, take, put, give · **To what, where:** ingenious kind, candle, bedroom candlestick, candlestick, splendid light

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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 (boy, candle), 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:pg23661:14:26
# text = He had invented, all by himself, a very ingenious and new kind of lantern, made with a turnip and a tumbler, and when he took the candle out of Granny's bedroom candlestick to put in it, it gave quite a splendid light.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	turnip	turnip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tumbler	tumbler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	candlestick	candlestick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
45	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	48	det:predet	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past · perfect | boy |  |  |  |  | by boy | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a ingenious kind of lantern *not said here* |  |  |  | with a turnip and a tumbler | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **take** | past | boy | the candle |  | Granny's bedroom candlestick |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent candle=Theme out candlestick=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  | candlestick |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination |
| 5 | **give** | past | candle | quite splendid light |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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