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title: Harry and Effie could see the country below, hedges and rivers and c… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Harry and Effie could see the country below, hedges and rivers and churches and farmhouses flowing away from under them, much faster than you see them running away from the sides of the fastest express train. Who acts: Harry, hedges, you, farmhouses. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit,
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 63

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Harry and Effie could see the country below, hedges and rivers and churches and farmhouses flowing away from under them, much faster than you see them running away from the sides of the fastest express train.

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**Who acts:** Harry, hedges, you, farmhouses · **What happens:** see, flow away, run away · **To what, where:** country, farmhouses, sides

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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 (Harry, hedges, you, farmhouses), 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:pg23661:6:63
# text = Harry and Effie could see the country below, hedges and rivers and churches and farmhouses flowing away from under them, much faster than you see them running away from the sides of the fastest express train.
1	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Effie	Effie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	below	below	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	farmhouses	farmhouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
37	express	express	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **see** | could | Harry and Effie | the country |  |  |  | hedges and rivers and churches and farmhouses *obl*; below, fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus |
| 2 | **flow away** | gerund | hedges and rivers and churches and farmhouses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from farmhouses *= farmhouse*; away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | you | farmhouses *= farmhouse* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run away** | gerund | farmhouses *= farmhouse* *not said here* |  |  | the sides of the fastest express train |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from side=Trajectory |

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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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