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title: So he took _The Book of Beasts_ out into the rose garden and opened… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took _The Book of Beasts_ out into the rose garden and opened the page next to the one where the Dragon had been just a tiny bit to see what the name was. Who acts: Bird, Dragon, name. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 28

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So he took \_The Book of Beasts\_ out into the rose garden and opened the page next to the one where the Dragon had been just a tiny bit to see what the name was.

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**Who acts:** Bird, Dragon, name · **What happens:** take, open, be, see · **To what, where:** Book, rose garden, page, one, tiny bit

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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 (Bird, Dragon, name), 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:pg23661:2:28
# text = So he took _The Book of Beasts_ out into the rose garden and opened the page next to the one where the Dragon had been just a tiny bit to see what the name was.
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	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	next	next	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 | **take** | past | Bird | the Book of Beasts |  | the rose garden |  | out *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme into garden=Destination |
| 2 | **open** | past | Bird *not said here* | the page | the one |  |  | next *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent page=Patient to one=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | the Dragon | a tiny bit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the name | a tiny bit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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