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title: Just then a flight of dragons passed overhead, and St. George half d… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then a flight of dragons passed overhead, and St. George half drew his sword. Who acts: George half. 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 26

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Just then a flight of dragons passed overhead, and St. George half drew his sword.

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**Who acts:** George half · **What happens:** pass, draw · **To what, where:** dragons, flight

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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 (George half), 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:pg23661:6:26
# text = Just then a flight of dragons passed overhead, and St. George half drew his sword.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	nsubj	_	_
14	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | dragons *not said here* |  |  |  | overhead *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | George half | a flight of dragons |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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