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title: And the Mexican lapdog barked all the time, till the church bells ti… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Mexican lapdog barked all the time, till the church bells tinkled, and the chimney of the apple factory rocked again. Who acts: Mexican lapdog, church bells. 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 78

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And the Mexican lapdog barked all the time, till the church bells tinkled, and the chimney of the apple factory rocked again.

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**Who acts:** Mexican lapdog, church bells · **What happens:** bark, tinkle, rock · **To what, where:** chimney

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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, church bells), 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:pg23661:3:78
# text = And the Mexican lapdog barked all the time, till the church bells tinkled, and the chimney of the apple factory rocked again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	barked	bark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	rocked	rock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | past | the Mexican lapdog |  |  |  | time |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tinkle** | participle | the church bells |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rock** | participle · passive |  | the chimney of the apple factory |  |  | again |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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