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title: And off he went, and in a few minutes he came back with a great armf… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And off he went, and in a few minutes he came back with a great armful of sticks from the pine trees outside, and with these and a lesson book or two that he had forgotten to lose before, and which, quite by an oversight, were safe in his pocket, he lit a fire all around the cockatrice. Who acts: fi
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 59

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And off he went, and in a few minutes he came back with a great armful of sticks from the pine trees outside, and with these and a lesson book or two that he had forgotten to lose before, and which, quite by an oversight, were safe in his pocket, he lit a fire all around the cockatrice.

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**Who acts:** fire · **What happens:** go, come back, forget, not lose, be, light · **To what, where:** lesson book, pocket, fire

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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 (fire), 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:pg23661:14:59
# text = And off he went, and in a few minutes he came back with a great armful of sticks from the pine trees outside, and with these and a lesson book or two that he had forgotten to lose before, and which, quite by an oversight, were safe in his pocket, he lit a fire all around the cockatrice.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	armful	armful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	before	before	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	oversight	oversight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	all	all	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
62	around	around	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | fire |  |  |  |  | with a lesson book; off *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with book=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **come back** | past | fire |  |  |  | minute | with a great armful of sticks from the pine trees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** | past · perfect · passive |  | a lesson book |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **lose** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | fire's pocket |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **light** | past | fire | a fire |  |  |  | around the cockatrice | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |

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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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