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title: And now the floods of rain were pouring down on the country, and gre… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 122

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And now the floods of rain were pouring down on the country, and great sheets of water flowed toward the center of the map, and cataracts of water poured into the great round hole in the middle of the map, and the dragons were being washed away and disappearing down the waste pipe in great green masses and scattered green shoals--single dragons and dragons by the dozen; of all sizes, from the ones that carry off elephants down to the ones that get in your tea.

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**Who acts:** floods, great sheets, ones, rain · **What happens:** pour down, flow, pour, wash away, disappear, scatter · **To what, where:** country, cataracts, great round hole, dragons, green shoals, elephants

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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 (floods, great sheets, ones, rain), 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:pg23661:6:122
# text = And now the floods of rain were pouring down on the country, and great sheets of water flowed toward the center of the map, and cataracts of water poured into the great round hole in the middle of the map, and the dragons were being washed away and disappearing down the waste pipe in great green masses and scattered green shoals--single dragons and dragons by the dozen; of all sizes, from the ones that carry off elephants down to the ones that get in your tea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	flowed	flow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
20	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	cataracts	cataract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
48	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
50	away	away	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	conj	_	_
53	down	down	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
59	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
63	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	shoals	shoal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	conj	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	conj	_	_
70	by	by	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	76	punct	_	_
74	of	of	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	76	det	_	_
76	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
78	from	from	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
79	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	80	det	_	_
80	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	76	appos	_	_
81	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	82	nsubj	_	_
82	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	80	acl:relcl	_	_
83	off	off	ADP	RP	_	82	compound:prt	_	_
84	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	82	obj	_	_
85	down	down	ADV	RB	_	82	advmod	_	_
86	to	to	ADP	IN	_	88	case	_	_
87	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	88	det	_	_
88	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	82	obl	_	_
89	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	90	nsubj	_	_
90	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	88	acl:relcl	_	_
91	in	in	ADP	IN	_	93	case	_	_
92	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	93	nmod:poss	_	_
93	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	90	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
94	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour down** | past · progressive | the floods of rain |  |  | the country | now | down *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **flow** | participle | great sheets of water | cataracts of water |  |  |  | toward the center of the map | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pour** | participle |  | cataracts of water *not said here* |  | the great round hole in the middle of the map |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Location |
| 4 | **wash away** | past · passive |  | the dragons |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **disappear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | down the waste pipe in great green masses | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **scatter** | past |  | green shoals and single dragons and dragons |  |  |  | by the dozen | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shoal=Theme by dozen=Destination |
| 7 | **carry off** | present | the ones | elephants | the ones |  |  | down *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme to one=Destination |
| 8 | **get** | present | the ones |  |  | your tea |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **flood** |  | rain |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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