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title: At last came a Saturday when the Dragon actually walked into the Roy… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: At last came a Saturday when the Dragon actually walked into the Royal nursery and carried off the King's own pet Rocking Horse. Who acts: Dragon. 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 56

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At last came a Saturday when the Dragon actually walked into the Royal nursery and carried off the King's own pet Rocking Horse.

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**Who acts:** Dragon · **What happens:** come, walk, carry off, rock · **To what, where:** last, Royal nursery, own pet, Horse

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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:pg23661:2:56
# text = At last came a Saturday when the Dragon actually walked into the Royal nursery and carried off the King's own pet Rocking Horse.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Royal	Royal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
23	Rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | last | saturday |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the Dragon |  |  |  |  | into the Royal nursery *result*; actually *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into nursery=Result |
| 3 | **carry off** | past |  | the King's own pet |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |
| 4 | **rock** | gerund |  | Horse |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=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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