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title: And of course he left the kitties outside, because there was no room… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And of course he left the kitties outside, because there was no room for them in the book--and the milk cans too. Who acts: King, room. 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 104

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And of course he left the kitties outside, because there was no room for them in the book--and the milk cans too.

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**Who acts:** King, room · **What happens:** leave, be · **To what, where:** kitties, book

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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, room), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg23661:171`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:2:104
# text = And of course he left the kitties outside, because there was no room for them in the book--and the milk cans too.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kitties	kitty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | King | the kitties and the milk cans |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitty=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | no room for kitties |  |  | the book; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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