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title: So he got back into his picture and has never come out since: That i… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So he got back into his picture and has never come out since: That is why you will never see a Manticora as long as you live, except in a picture-book. Who acts: King, That, you. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 103

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So he got back into his picture and has never come out since: That is why you will never see a Manticora as long as you live, except in a picture-book.

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**Who acts:** King, That, you · **What happens:** get back, not come out, be, not see, live · **To what, where:** picture, Manticora

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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, That, you), 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:pg23661:2:103
# text = So he got back into his picture and has never come out since: That is why you will never see a Manticora as long as you live, except in a picture-book.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	since	since	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	except	except	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | King |  |  | King's picture |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into picture=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **come out** | present · perfect | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **see** | future | you | a Manticora |  |  |  | except a picture book; long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manticora=Stimulus |
| 5 | **live** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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