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title: The great slide is like common slides in that when once you have sta… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The great slide is like common slides in that when once you have started you have to go on to the end--unless you fall down--and then it hurts just as much as the smaller kind on ponds. Who acts: great slide, you, slide. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7, with its dep
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 102

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The great slide is like common slides in that when once you have started you have to go on to the end--unless you fall down--and then it hurts just as much as the smaller kind on ponds.

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**Who acts:** great slide, you, slide · **What happens:** be, start, have, go on, fall down, hurt

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great slide, you, slide), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg23661:684`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:7:102
# text = The great slide is like common slides in that when once you have started you have to go on to the end--unless you fall down--and then it hurts just as much as the smaller kind on ponds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	slides	slide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	amod	_	_
39	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the great slide |  |  |  |  | like common slides | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go on** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | to the end |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hurt** | present | slide |  |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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