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title: Effie wrapped herself in a shawl of dragonproof muslin--there was no… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 125

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Effie wrapped herself in a shawl of dragonproof muslin--there was no time to make the frock--and Harry made a horrid mess of himself with the patent dragon poison.

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**Who acts:** Effie, time, Harry · **What happens:** wrap, be, make, mess · **To what, where:** Effie, shawl, frock, horrid mess, Harry

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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 (Effie, time, Harry), 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:pg23661:5:125
# text = Effie wrapped herself in a shawl of dragonproof muslin--there was no time to make the frock--and Harry made a horrid mess of himself with the patent dragon poison.
1	Effie	Effie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shawl	shawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	dragonproof	dragonproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	muslin	muslin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	patent	patent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | past | Effie | Effie |  | a shawl of dragonproof muslin |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in shawl=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | past | no time |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | no time *not said here* | the frock |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset frock=Product |
| 4 | **make** | past | Harry | a horrid mess of Harry |  |  |  | with the dragon poison | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Product |
| 5 | **mess** |  |  | Harry |  |  |  |  | nom mess «state 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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