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title: He pointed out of the window, and everyone could see a vast yellow c… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He pointed out of the window, and everyone could see a vast yellow cloud rising up into the air above the mountain. Who acts: chicken, everyone, vast yellow cloud. 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 94

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He pointed out of the window, and everyone could see a vast yellow cloud rising up into the air above the mountain.

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**Who acts:** chicken, everyone, vast yellow cloud · **What happens:** point out, see, rise up · **To what, where:** window, vast yellow cloud, air

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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 (chicken, everyone, vast yellow cloud), 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:pg23661:14:94
# text = He pointed out of the window, and everyone could see a vast yellow cloud rising up into the air above the mountain.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point out** | past | chicken | the window |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | could | everyone | a vast yellow cloud |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rise up** | gerund | a vast yellow cloud *not said here* |  |  | the air above the mountain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial\_Location |

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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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