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title: So their pinafores were taken off and they all went to the Zoologica… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So their pinafores were taken off and they all went to the Zoological Gardens, where twenty of them could ride at a time on the guinea pig, and where even the little ones could feed the great rabbits if some grown-up person were kind enough to lift them up for the purpose. Who acts: pinafores, twent
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 22

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So their pinafores were taken off and they all went to the Zoological Gardens, where twenty of them could ride at a time on the guinea pig, and where even the little ones could feed the great rabbits if some grown-up person were kind enough to lift them up for the purpose.

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**Who acts:** pinafores, twenty, little ones, grown person · **What happens:** take off, go, ride, feed, grow up, be · **To what, where:** pinafores, Zoological Gardens, great rabbits, rabbits

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pinafores, twenty, little ones, grown person), 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:pg23661:3:22
# text = So their pinafores were taken off and they all went to the Zoological Gardens, where twenty of them could ride at a time on the guinea pig, and where even the little ones could feed the great rabbits if some grown-up person were kind enough to lift them up for the purpose.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	pinafores	pinafore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Gardens	Garden	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	iobj	_	_
41	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
42	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
43	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
46	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	advcl	_	_
49	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	up	up	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past · passive |  | Gardens's pinafores |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | pinafores *= pinafore* |  |  | the Zoological Gardens |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ride** | could | twenty of Gardens |  |  |  | time | on the guinea pig | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feed** | could | the little ones |  | the great rabbits |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient |
| 5 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | some grown person |  |  |  |  | enough, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **lift up** | to-infinitive | some grown person *not said here* | rabbits *= rabbit* |  |  |  | for the purpose | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary |

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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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