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title: The ones as big as dogs got in the bath, and the fire and smoke insi… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The ones as big as dogs got in the bath, and the fire and smoke inside them made them steam like anything when the cold water tap was turned on, so that careless people were often scalded quite severely. Who acts: dogs, ones. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5, with it
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 73

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The ones as big as dogs got in the bath, and the fire and smoke inside them made them steam like anything when the cold water tap was turned on, so that careless people were often scalded quite severely.

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**Who acts:** dogs, ones · **What happens:** get, make, turn on, scald · **To what, where:** bath, fire, cold water tap, careless people

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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 (dogs, ones), 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:pg23661:5:73
# text = The ones as big as dogs got in the bath, and the fire and smoke inside them made them steam like anything when the cold water tap was turned on, so that careless people were often scalded quite severely.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	nmod	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	39	mark	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
38	often	often	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	scalded	scald	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
40	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | dogs |  |  | the bath |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | past | the ones | fire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary steam=Product |
| 3 | **turn on** | past · passive |  | the cold water tap |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **scald** | past · passive |  | careless people |  |  |  | often, severely *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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