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title: And in the afternoon the Dragon suddenly swooped down upon the commo… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And in the afternoon the Dragon suddenly swooped down upon the common in all his hideous redness, and carried off the Soccer Players, umpires, goal-posts, ball, and all. Who acts: Dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 13

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And in the afternoon the Dragon suddenly swooped down upon the common in all his hideous redness, and carried off the Soccer Players, umpires, goal-posts, ball, and all.

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**Who acts:** Dragon · **What happens:** swoop down, carry off · **To what, where:** Soccer Players

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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 (Dragon), 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:pg23661:2:13
# text = And in the afternoon the Dragon suddenly swooped down upon the common in all his hideous redness, and carried off the Soccer Players, umpires, goal-posts, ball, and all.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	redness	redness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Soccer	Soccer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Players	Player	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	umpires	umpire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **swoop down** | past | the Dragon |  |  |  | afternoon | upon the common; down, suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry off** | past |  | the Soccer Players |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=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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