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title: In a few minutes the Manticora came sleepily out of the book, rubbin… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few minutes the Manticora came sleepily out of the book, rubbing its eyes with its hands and mewing piteously. Who acts: Manticora. 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 40

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In a few minutes the Manticora came sleepily out of the book, rubbing its eyes with its hands and mewing piteously.

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**Who acts:** Manticora · **What happens:** come, rub, mew · **To what, where:** book, eyes

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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 (Manticora), 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:pg23661:2:40
# text = In a few minutes the Manticora came sleepily out of the book, rubbing its eyes with its hands and mewing piteously.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sleepily	sleepily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	mewing	mew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
22	piteously	piteously	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **come** | past | the Manticora |  |  | the book | minute | sleepily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out book=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **rub** | gerund | the Manticora *not said here* | picture's eyes |  |  |  | with picture's hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with hand=Theme |
| 3 | **mew** | gerund | the Manticora *not said here* |  |  |  |  | piteously *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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