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title: Lionel jumped off the white horse's back in the very middle of the P… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Lionel jumped off the white horse's back in the very middle of the Pebbly Waste, and he hurriedly unclasped _The Book of Beasts_ and laid it open on the pebbles. Who acts: Lionel. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 79

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Lionel jumped off the white horse's back in the very middle of the Pebbly Waste, and he hurriedly unclasped \_The Book of Beasts\_ and laid it open on the pebbles.

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**Who acts:** Lionel · **What happens:** jump off, unclasp, lay · **To what, where:** back, middle, Book, Waste, pebbles

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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 (Lionel), 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:pg23661:2:79
# text = Lionel jumped off the white horse's back in the very middle of the Pebbly Waste, and he hurriedly unclasped _The Book of Beasts_ and laid it open on the pebbles.
1	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	unclasped	unclasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **jump off** | past | Lionel | the white horse's back |  | the middle of the Pebbly Waste |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme in middle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **unclasp** | past | Lionel | the Book of Beasts |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | past | Lionel *not said here* | Waste |  | the pebbles |  | open *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on pebble=Destination |

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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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