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title: The red wings were bigger than the white ones, but they were not so… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The red wings were bigger than the white ones, but they were not so strong, and so the white-winged horse flew away and away and away, with the Dragon pursuing, till he reached the very middle of the Pebbly Waste. Who acts: red wings, wings, winged horse, Horse. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» b
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 77

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The red wings were bigger than the white ones, but they were not so strong, and so the white-winged horse flew away and away and away, with the Dragon pursuing, till he reached the very middle of the Pebbly Waste.

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**Who acts:** red wings, wings, winged horse, Horse · **What happens:** be, not be, wing, fly, reach · **To what, where:** middle

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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 (red wings, wings, winged horse, Horse), 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:pg23661:2:77
# text = The red wings were bigger than the white ones, but they were not so strong, and so the white-winged horse flew away and away and away, with the Dragon pursuing, till he reached the very middle of the Pebbly Waste.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	pursuing	pursuing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	very	very	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the red wings |  |  |  |  | than the white ones; big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | wings *= wing* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** | past | the winged horse |  |  |  |  | with the Dragon pursuing; away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **reach** | past | Horse | the middle of the Pebbly Waste |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=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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