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title: And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten,… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 56

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And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings.

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**What happens:** come, crawl · **To what, where:** boot, lizard

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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: 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:pg23661:5:56
# text = And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	crawling	crawl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the boot |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crawl** | gerund |  | a lizard and large shiny wings |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location lizard=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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