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title: And in quite another part of the mountain he found a dark passage, a… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And in quite another part of the mountain he found a dark passage, all lined with brass, so that it was like the inside of a huge telescope, and at the very end of it he found a bright green door. Who acts: lantern, dark passage, passage. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 79

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And in quite another part of the mountain he found a dark passage, all lined with brass, so that it was like the inside of a huge telescope, and at the very end of it he found a bright green door.

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**Who acts:** lantern, dark passage, passage · **What happens:** find, line, be · **To what, where:** dark passage, part, all, bright green door, end

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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, dark passage, passage), 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:pg23661:14:79
# text = And in quite another part of the mountain he found a dark passage, all lined with brass, so that it was like the inside of a huge telescope, and at the very end of it he found a bright green door.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | lantern | a dark passage |  | another part of the mountain |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Topic |
| 2 | **line** | participle · passive | a dark passage *not said here* | all |  |  |  | with brass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with brass=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | passage |  |  |  |  | like the inside; of a huge telescope | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | past | lantern | a bright green door |  |  | at the end of passage |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent door=Theme at end=Asset |

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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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