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title: Now, the Pebbly Waste is just like the parts of the seaside where th… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, the Pebbly Waste is just like the parts of the seaside where there is no sand--all round, loose, shifting stones, and there is no grass there and no tree within a hundred miles of it. Who acts: Pebbly Waste, sand, all, shifting. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2,
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 78

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Now, the Pebbly Waste is just like the parts of the seaside where there is no sand--all round, loose, shifting stones, and there is no grass there and no tree within a hundred miles of it.

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**Who acts:** Pebbly Waste, sand, all, shifting · **What happens:** be, shift · **To what, where:** stones, grass

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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 (Pebbly Waste, sand, all, shifting), 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:pg23661:2:78
# text = Now, the Pebbly Waste is just like the parts of the seaside where there is no sand--all round, loose, shifting stones, and there is no grass there and no tree within a hundred miles of it.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	seaside	seaside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
21	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	shifting	shift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
26	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
33	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	within	within	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Pebbly Waste |  |  |  | now | like the parts; of the seaside | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | no sand |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** |  | all |  |  |  |  | within hundred miles of Waste | tree rules |
| 4 | **shift** | gerund |  | stones |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer stone=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | shifting | no grass and no tree |  | there |  |  | 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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