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title: And all the time the Mexican lapdog barked so that the houses shook,… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the time the Mexican lapdog barked so that the houses shook, and the tiles on the roof of the palace rattled like milk cans in a cart whose horse is frisky. Who acts: Mexican lapdog, houses, tiles. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree an
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 68

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And all the time the Mexican lapdog barked so that the houses shook, and the tiles on the roof of the palace rattled like milk cans in a cart whose horse is frisky.

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**Who acts:** Mexican lapdog, houses, tiles · **What happens:** bark, shake, rattle, be · **To what, where:** palace

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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 (Mexican lapdog, houses, tiles), 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:pg23661:3:68
# text = And all the time the Mexican lapdog barked so that the houses shook, and the tiles on the roof of the palace rattled like milk cans in a cart whose horse is frisky.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	barked	bark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	frisky	frisky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | participle | the Mexican lapdog |  |  |  | time |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake** | past | the houses |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **rattle** | participle |  | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  | like milk cans in a cart | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the tiles on the roof of the palace |  |  |  |  | frisky *property* | tree rules |

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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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