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title: And now the clucking sounded more plainly than before, and he could… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the clucking sounded more plainly than before, and he could hardly hear the rumbling at all. Who acts: boy. 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 38

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And now the clucking sounded more plainly than before, and he could hardly hear the rumbling at all.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** cluck, sound, hear · **To what, where:** rumbling, all

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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), 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:pg23661:14:38
# text = And now the clucking sounded more plainly than before, and he could hardly hear the rumbling at all.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clucking	cluck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cluck** | gerund |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sound** | past |  |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hear** | could | boy | the rumbling |  | all |  | hardly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumbling=Stimulus |

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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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