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title: Jane fell on top of him--and then they crawled on hands and knees to… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Jane fell on top of him--and then they crawled on hands and knees to the snow at the edge of the slide--and there was a sportsman, dressed in a peaked cap and a frozen moustache, like the one you see in the pictures about Ice-Peter, and he had a gun in his hand. Who acts: Jane, George, sportsman, yo
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 114

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Jane fell on top of him--and then they crawled on hands and knees to the snow at the edge of the slide--and there was a sportsman, dressed in a peaked cap and a frozen moustache, like the one you see in the pictures about Ice-Peter, and he had a gun in his hand.

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**Who acts:** Jane, George, sportsman, you · **What happens:** fall, crawl, be, dress, peak, freeze · **To what, where:** top, hands, sportsman, peaked cap, pictures, gun

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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 (Jane, George, sportsman, 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:pg23661:7:114
# text = Jane fell on top of him--and then they crawled on hands and knees to the snow at the edge of the slide--and there was a sportsman, dressed in a peaked cap and a frozen moustache, like the one you see in the pictures about Ice-Peter, and he had a gun in his hand.
1	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	peaked	peak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	moustache	moustache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	about	about	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Jane |  |  | top of cry |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location |
| 2 | **crawl** | past | George |  |  | hands and knees | then | to the snow; at the edge of the slide | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to snow=Destination |
| 3 | **be** | past | a sportsman |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dress** | participle |  | a sportsman *not said here* |  | a peaked cap and a frozen moustache |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **peak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **see** | present | you |  |  | the pictures about Ice Peter |  | like the one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **have** | past | sportsman | a gun |  | cry's hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient |

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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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