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title: Now, one day Edmund made a new lantern out of something chemical tha… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, one day Edmund made a new lantern out of something chemical that he sneaked from the school laboratory. Who acts: one day, lantern. 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 77

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Now, one day Edmund made a new lantern out of something chemical that he sneaked from the school laboratory.

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**Who acts:** one day, lantern · **What happens:** make, sneak · **To what, where:** new lantern, something chemical, school laboratory

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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 (one day, lantern), 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:pg23661:14:77
# text = Now, one day Edmund made a new lantern out of something chemical that he sneaked from the school laboratory.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	compound	_	_
13	chemical	chemical	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sneaked	sneak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | one day | a new lantern |  | something chemical | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lantern=Product |
| 2 | **sneak** | past | lantern | something chemical |  | the school laboratory |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme from laboratory=Trajectory |

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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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