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title: Presently he sat down in the biggest cave and listened very carefull… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently he sat down in the biggest cave and listened very carefully, and it seemed to him that he could distinguish three different sorts of noises. Who acts: lantern, it. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 32

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Presently he sat down in the biggest cave and listened very carefully, and it seemed to him that he could distinguish three different sorts of noises.

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**Who acts:** lantern, it · **What happens:** sit down, listen, seem, distinguish, sort · **To what, where:** biggest cave, lantern, three different sorts, noises

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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 (lantern, it), 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:pg23661:14:32
# text = Presently he sat down in the biggest cave and listened very carefully, and it seemed to him that he could distinguish three different sorts of noises.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | lantern |  |  | the biggest cave |  | presently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location |
| 2 | **listen** | past | lantern *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past | it |  | lantern |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **distinguish** | could | lantern | three different sorts of noises |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute sort=Theme |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | noises |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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