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title: When Effie had cleaned it with a bit of her skirt--for curiously eno… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: When Effie had cleaned it with a bit of her skirt--for curiously enough both the children had come out without pocket handkerchiefs--she found that the label said "Waste." Who acts: children, Effie, label. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree an
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 115

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When Effie had cleaned it with a bit of her skirt--for curiously enough both the children had come out without pocket handkerchiefs--she found that the label said "Waste."

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**Who acts:** children, Effie, label · **What happens:** clean, come out, find, say · **To what, where:** Effie, Waste · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (children, Effie, label), 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:pg23661:6:115
# text = When Effie had cleaned it with a bit of her skirt--for curiously enough both the children had come out without pocket handkerchiefs--she found that the label said "Waste."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Effie	Effie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	skirt	skirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc:preconj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	handkerchiefs	handkerchief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | past · perfect · passive |  | Effie |  |  |  | with a bit of Effie's skirt | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Patient |
| 2 | **come out** | past · perfect | the children |  |  |  |  | without pocket handkerchiefs; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | past | Effie |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the label | Waste |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent waste=Topic |

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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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