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title: The intelligent little creature listened carefully, and then climbed… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The intelligent little creature listened carefully, and then climbed from Tom's knee to the table, on which stood an ornamental calendar that the Princess had given Tom for a Christmas present. Who acts: intelligent little creature. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4, 
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 25

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The intelligent little creature listened carefully, and then climbed from Tom's knee to the table, on which stood an ornamental calendar that the Princess had given Tom for a Christmas present.

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**Who acts:** intelligent little creature · **What happens:** listen, climb, stand, give · **To what, where:** intelligent little creature, knee, ornamental calendar, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intelligent little creature), 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:pg23661:4:25
# text = The intelligent little creature listened carefully, and then climbed from Tom's knee to the table, on which stood an ornamental calendar that the Princess had given Tom for a Christmas present.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	ornamental	ornamental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
30	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | participle |  | the intelligent little creature *not said here* |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **climb** | past | the intelligent little creature |  |  | Tom's knee | then | to the table | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from knee=Initial\_Location to table=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  | a ornamental calendar |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer calendar=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Princess |  |  |  | for a Christmas present | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient tom=Theme for present=Asset |

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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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