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title: Showery," "Good open weather," "Nice growing weather for the crops,"… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Showery," "Good open weather," "Nice growing weather for the crops," and even "South" and "South-West," because she had heard her father say that those winds brought rain. Who acts: Showery, father, winds. 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 121

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Showery," "Good open weather," "Nice growing weather for the crops," and even "South" and "South-West," because she had heard her father say that those winds brought rain.

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**Who acts:** Showery, father, winds · **What happens:** grow, hear, say, bring · **To what, where:** weather, rain · **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 (Showery, father, winds), 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:pg23661:6:121
# text = Showery," "Good open weather," "Nice growing weather for the crops," and even "South" and "South-West," because she had heard her father say that those winds brought rain.
1	Showery	Showery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
12	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
31	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
42	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund | Showery and South and South and West *not said here* | weather |  |  |  | for the crops | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent weather=Product for crop=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Showery and South and South and West |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Showery's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | past | that winds | rain |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |

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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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