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title: Presently Center of Gravity--a great giant who was managing the whol… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently Center of Gravity--a great giant who was managing the whole business--woke up in the middle of the earth and began to grumble. Who acts: great giant, Center. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 32

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Presently Center of Gravity--a great giant who was managing the whole business--woke up in the middle of the earth and began to grumble.

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**Who acts:** great giant, Center · **What happens:** manage, wake up, begin, grumble · **To what, where:** whole business, middle

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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 (great giant, Center), 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:pg23661:3:32
# text = Presently Center of Gravity--a great giant who was managing the whole business--woke up in the middle of the earth and began to grumble.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Center	Center	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gravity	Gravity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	managing	manage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	grumble	grumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past · progressive | a great giant | the whole business |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
| 2 | **wake up** | past | Center of Gravity |  |  | the middle of the earth |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Center of Gravity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **grumble** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Center of Gravity *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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