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title: It is very pleasant to slide and slide and slide on clear, dark ice-… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: It is very pleasant to slide and slide and slide on clear, dark ice--especially if you feel you are really going somewhere, and more especially if that somewhere is the North Pole. Who acts: light, you. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 107

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It is very pleasant to slide and slide and slide on clear, dark ice--especially if you feel you are really going somewhere, and more especially if that somewhere is the North Pole.

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**Who acts:** light, you · **What happens:** be, slide, feel, go · **To what, where:** clear dark ice, North Pole

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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 (light, 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:pg23661:7:107
# text = It is very pleasant to slide and slide and slide on clear, dark ice--especially if you feel you are really going somewhere, and more especially if that somewhere is the North Pole.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	slide	slide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	slide	slide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	slide	slide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	really	really	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
25	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
32	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advcl	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | light |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **slide** | to-infinitive | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **slide** | infinitive | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **slide** | infinitive | light *not said here* |  |  | clear dark ice |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory |
| 5 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | present | light *not said here* | the North Pole |  |  |  | especially *property* | tree rules |

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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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