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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 85

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And now they were in a sort of room cut out of the solid rock, and all along one side of the room were taps, and all the taps were labeled with china labels like you see in baths.

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**Who acts:** dragons, sort room, you · **What happens:** be, cut out, label, see · **To what, where:** sort room, solid rock, taps, china labels, baths

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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 (dragons, sort room, you), 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:pg23661:6:85
# text = And now they were in a sort of room cut out of the solid rock, and all along one side of the room were taps, and all the taps were labeled with china labels like you see in baths.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	along	along	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	labeled	label	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	labels	label	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	baths	bath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | dragons *= dragon* |  |  | a sort room and one side of the room | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut out** | participle | a sort room and one side of the room *not said here* | the solid rock |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector rock=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a sort room and one side of the room | taps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **label** | past · passive |  | all taps |  |  |  | with china labels | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with label=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | present | you | china labels *not said here* |  | baths |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer label=Stimulus |

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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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