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title: Of course he knew his way onto his own page, so there was no danger… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course he knew his way onto his own page, so there was no danger of his opening the book at the wrong page and letting out a Dragon or anything. Who acts: King, danger. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 102

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Of course he knew his way onto his own page, so there was no danger of his opening the book at the wrong page and letting out a Dragon or anything.

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**Who acts:** King, danger · **What happens:** know, be, open, let out, page · **To what, where:** way, own page, book, wrong page, Dragon

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, danger), 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:pg23661:2:102
# text = Of course he knew his way onto his own page, so there was no danger of his opening the book at the wrong page and letting out a Dragon or anything.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | King | King's way |  | King's own page |  | of course | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | past | no danger |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | gerund | King | the book |  | the wrong page |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent book=Theme at page=Location |
| 4 | **let out** | gerund | King *not said here* | a Dragon |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme |
| 5 | **page** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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