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title: Then they joined hands and set out to walk to St. George's Church. — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they joined hands and set out to walk to St. George's Church. Who acts: they. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 1

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Then they joined hands and set out to walk to St. George's Church.

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**Who acts:** they · **What happens:** join, set out, walk · **To what, where:** hands, Church

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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:pg23661:6:1
# text = Then they joined hands and set out to walk to St. George's Church.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | they | hands |  |  | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **set out** | infinitive | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* |  | George  St.'s Church |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to church=Result |

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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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