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title: And on the Saturday morning, when people were a little timid about g… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the Saturday morning, when people were a little timid about going out, because the Dragon had no regular hour for calling, the Manticora went up and down the streets and drank all the milk that was left in the cans at the doors for people's teas, and it ate the cans as well. Who acts: people,
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 44

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And on the Saturday morning, when people were a little timid about going out, because the Dragon had no regular hour for calling, the Manticora went up and down the streets and drank all the milk that was left in the cans at the doors for people's teas, and it ate the cans as well.

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**Who acts:** people, Dragon, Manticora, picture · **What happens:** be, go out, have, call, go up, drink · **To what, where:** milk, cans · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, Dragon, Manticora, picture), 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:pg23661:2:44
# text = And on the Saturday morning, when people were a little timid about going out, because the Dragon had no regular hour for calling, the Manticora went up and down the streets and drank all the milk that was left in the cans at the doors for people's teas, and it ate the cans as well.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
22	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
30	up	up	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	's	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	teas	tea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
59	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	56	advmod	_	_
60	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	59	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  | morning | a little *obl:unmarked*; timid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Dragon |  |  |  | hour |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** | gerund | the Dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go up** | past | the Manticora |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **drink** | past | the Manticora *not said here* | all milk |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 7 | **leave** | past · passive |  | all milk |  | the cans |  | at the doors; for people's teas | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in can=Location |
| 8 | **eat** | past | picture | the cans |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient |

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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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