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title: So Tom went on, looking at the rabbits and watching the morning grow… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So Tom went on, looking at the rabbits and watching the morning grow more and more red and golden. Who acts: Tom. 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 77

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So Tom went on, looking at the rabbits and watching the morning grow more and more red and golden.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** go on, look, watch, grow

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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 (Tom), 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:pg23661:3:77
# text = So Tom went on, looking at the rabbits and watching the morning grow more and more red and golden.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	nsubj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the rabbits | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at rabbit=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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