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title: The great slide runs downhill all the way, so that you keep on going… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The great slide runs downhill all the way, so that you keep on going faster and faster and faster. Who acts: great slide, you. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 103

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The great slide runs downhill all the way, so that you keep on going faster and faster and faster.

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**Who acts:** great slide, you · **What happens:** run, keep, go · **To what, where:** way

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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), 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:pg23661:7:103
# text = The great slide runs downhill all the way, so that you keep on going faster and faster and faster.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	downhill	downhill	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
16	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | the great slide | all way |  |  |  | downhill *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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