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description: Another size lived on bricks, and three of them ate two thirds of the South Lambeth Infirmary in one afternoon. Who acts: size, three. 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 91

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Another size lived on bricks, and three of them ate two thirds of the South Lambeth Infirmary in one afternoon.

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**Who acts:** size, three · **What happens:** live, eat · **To what, where:** bricks, two thirds

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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 (size, three), 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:pg23661:5:91
# text = Another size lived on bricks, and three of them ate two thirds of the South Lambeth Infirmary in one afternoon.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Lambeth	Lambeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Infirmary	Infirmary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | another size |  |  | bricks |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brick=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | past | three of sizes | two thirds of the Lambeth Infirmary |  |  | afternoon |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=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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