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title: So the next afternoon, quite early, long before the beams of sunset… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So the next afternoon, quite early, long before the beams of sunset announced the coming night, when everybody would be up and working, the two children got out of bed. Who acts: next afternoon, everybody, two children. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5, with its depe
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 124

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So the next afternoon, quite early, long before the beams of sunset announced the coming night, when everybody would be up and working, the two children got out of bed.

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**Who acts:** next afternoon, everybody, two children · **What happens:** announce, come, be, work, get out, beam · **To what, where:** bed, sunset · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next afternoon, everybody, two children), 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:pg23661:5:124
# text = So the next afternoon, quite early, long before the beams of sunset announced the coming night, when everybody would be up and working, the two children got out of bed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	amod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the next afternoon |  |  |  | night | early, long *property* | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | would | everybody |  |  |  |  | up *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | gerund | everybody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get out** | past | the two children | bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **beam** |  |  | sunset |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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