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title: So the rock with the round piece of earth fell into the sea, and the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So the rock with the round piece of earth fell into the sea, and the point of the rock went into a hole that just fitted it in the stony sea bottom, and there it spun around the wrong way seven times and then lay still. Who acts: rock, point. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 35

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So the rock with the round piece of earth fell into the sea, and the point of the rock went into a hole that just fitted it in the stony sea bottom, and there it spun around the wrong way seven times and then lay still.

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**Who acts:** rock, point · **What happens:** fall, go, fit, spin, lie, point · **To what, where:** sea, hole, stony sea bottom, wrong way, rock

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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 (rock, point), 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:pg23661:3:35
# text = So the rock with the round piece of earth fell into the sea, and the point of the rock went into a hole that just fitted it in the stony sea bottom, and there it spun around the wrong way seven times and then lay still.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fitted	fit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
39	around	around	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
47	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
48	still	still	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the rock with the round piece of earth |  |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result |
| 2 | **go** | past | the point of the rock |  |  | a hole |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fit** | past |  | a hole |  | the stony sea bottom |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme it=Destination |
| 4 | **spin** | past | point |  |  | the wrong way; there | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around way=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lie** | past | the rock with the round piece of earth *not said here* |  |  |  | then; still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **point** |  |  | the rock |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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