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title: And they saw the whole of England, like a great puzzle map--green in… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And they saw the whole of England, like a great puzzle map--green in the field parts and brown in the towns, and black in the places where they make coal and crockery and cutlery and chemicals. Who acts: dragons. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with its dependency 
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 93

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And they saw the whole of England, like a great puzzle map--green in the field parts and brown in the towns, and black in the places where they make coal and crockery and cutlery and chemicals.

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**Who acts:** dragons · **What happens:** see, make · **To what, where:** whole, coal

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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:pg23661:6:93
# text = And they saw the whole of England, like a great puzzle map--green in the field parts and brown in the towns, and black in the places where they make coal and crockery and cutlery and chemicals.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	crockery	crockery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	cutlery	cutlery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | dragons *= dragon* | the whole |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whole=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | present | dragons *= dragon* | coal and crockery and cutlery and chemicals |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coal=Product |

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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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