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title: But after a time they got very tired of it all: They wanted to see t… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But after a time they got very tired of it all: They wanted to see the flowers and trees growing in the fields, and to see the pretty sunshine out of doors, and not just through glass windows and patent dragonproof curtains. Who acts: police, flowers. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 98

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But after a time they got very tired of it all: They wanted to see the flowers and trees growing in the fields, and to see the pretty sunshine out of doors, and not just through glass windows and patent dragonproof curtains.

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**Who acts:** police, flowers · **What happens:** get, want, see, grow · **To what, where:** glass windows, flowers, fields, pretty sunshine, doors

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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 (police, flowers), 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:pg23661:5:98
# text = But after a time they got very tired of it all: They wanted to see the flowers and trees growing in the fields, and to see the pretty sunshine out of doors, and not just through glass windows and patent dragonproof curtains.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
38	just	just	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	through	through	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	patent	patent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	dragonproof	dragonproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | police |  |  | glass windows and patent dragonproof curtains | time | tired *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through window=Destination |
| 2 | **want** | past | police |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | police *not said here* | the flowers and trees |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | the flowers and trees *not said here* |  |  | the fields |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | police *not said here* | the pretty sunshine |  | doors |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunshine=Stimulus |

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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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