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title: Of course, the consequence of the island having spun around the wron… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course, the consequence of the island having spun around the wrong way was that when the animals began to grow on the island they all grew the wrong sizes. Who acts: island, animals. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 39

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Of course, the consequence of the island having spun around the wrong way was that when the animals began to grow on the island they all grew the wrong sizes.

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**Who acts:** island, animals · **What happens:** have, spin, begin, grow · **To what, where:** wrong way, island, wrong sizes

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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 (island, animals), 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:pg23661:3:39
# text = Of course, the consequence of the island having spun around the wrong way was that when the animals began to grow on the island they all grew the wrong sizes.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	conj	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
28	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the island *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spin** | participle | the island *not said here* |  |  | the wrong way |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around way=Trajectory |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **grow** | to-infinitive | the animals *not said here* |  |  | the island |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
| 5 | **grow** | past | animals *= animal* | the wrong sizes |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location size=Theme |

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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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