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title: And she tried to turn off the sunshine, but the tap was out of order… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And she tried to turn off the sunshine, but the tap was out of order, and that was why there had been so much hot weather, and why the dragons had been able to be hatched. Who acts: Effie, tap, that, dragons. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 97

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And she tried to turn off the sunshine, but the tap was out of order, and that was why there had been so much hot weather, and why the dragons had been able to be hatched.

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**Who acts:** Effie, tap, that, dragons · **What happens:** try, turn off, be, hatch · **To what, where:** sunshine, order, hot weather

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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 (Effie, tap, that, 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:pg23661:6:97
# text = And she tried to turn off the sunshine, but the tap was out of order, and that was why there had been so much hot weather, and why the dragons had been able to be hatched.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
36	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Effie |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **turn off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Effie *not said here* | the sunshine |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sunshine=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the tap |  |  | order |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | participle |  | hot weather |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | the dragons |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hatch** | to-infinitive · passive | the dragons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.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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