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title: When they came to St. George's Church they found the door open, and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came to St. George's Church they found the door open, and they walked right in--but St. George was not there, so they walked around the churchyard outside, and presently they found the great stone tomb of St. George, with the figure of him carved in marble outside, in his armor and helmet,
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 15

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When they came to St. George's Church they found the door open, and they walked right in--but St. George was not there, so they walked around the churchyard outside, and presently they found the great stone tomb of St. George, with the figure of him carved in marble outside, in his armor and helmet, and with his hands folded on his breast.

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**Who acts:** deliverers, George · **What happens:** come, find, walk, not be, carve, fold · **To what, where:** Church, door, churchyard, great stone tomb, figure, marble · **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 (deliverers, George), 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:pg23661:6:15
# text = When they came to St. George's Church they found the door open, and they walked right in--but St. George was not there, so they walked around the churchyard outside, and presently they found the great stone tomb of St. George, with the figure of him carved in marble outside, in his armor and helmet, and with his hands folded on his breast.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
31	around	around	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod:desc	_	_
46	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nmod	_	_
53	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
56	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
65	with	with	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
67	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
68	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	67	acl	_	_
69	on	on	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	71	nmod:poss	_	_
71	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | deliverers *= deliverer* |  |  | George  St.'s Church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | deliverers *= deliverer* | the door |  |  |  | open *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |
| 3 | **walk** | past | deliverers *= deliverer* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | George  St. |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **walk** | past | deliverers *= deliverer* |  |  | the churchyard |  | outside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around churchyard=Trajectory |
| 6 | **find** | past | deliverers *= deliverer* | the great stone tomb of George  St. |  |  |  | with the figure of George; with George's hands; presently *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Topic |
| 7 | **carve** | participle |  | the figure of George *not said here* |  | marble |  | in George's armor and helmet; outside *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in marble=Destination |
| 8 | **fold** | participle |  | George's hands *not said here* |  | George's breast |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **figure** |  |  | George |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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