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title: And as they could both read words of two syllables or even three som… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And as they could both read words of two syllables or even three sometimes, they understood at once that they had gotten to the place where the weather is turned on from. Who acts: dragons. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 86

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And as they could both read words of two syllables or even three sometimes, they understood at once that they had gotten to the place where the weather is turned on from.

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**Who acts:** dragons · **What happens:** read, understand, get, turn on, word · **To what, where:** words, weather, two syllables

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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), 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:pg23661:6:86
# text = And as they could both read words of two syllables or even three sometimes, they understood at once that they had gotten to the place where the weather is turned on from.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	syllables	syllable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gotten	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | could | dragons *= dragon* | words of two syllables |  |  |  | both, sometimes *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **understand** | past | dragons *= dragon* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **get** | past · perfect | dragons *= dragon* |  |  |  |  | to the place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 4 | **turn on** | present · passive |  | the weather |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | two syllables |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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