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title: So there were fireworks and torchlight processions, and set pieces a… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So there were fireworks and torchlight processions, and set pieces at the Crystal Palace, with "Blessings on our Prince" and "Long Live our Royal Darling" in different-colored fires; and the most private of boarding schools had a half holiday; and even the children of plumbers and authors had tuppen
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 33

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So there were fireworks and torchlight processions, and set pieces at the Crystal Palace, with "Blessings on our Prince" and "Long Live our Royal Darling" in different-colored fires; and the most private of boarding schools had a half holiday; and even the children of plumbers and authors had tuppence each given them to spend as they liked.

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**Who acts:** private, schools · **What happens:** color, have, give, spend, like · **To what, where:** half holiday, each

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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 (private, schools), 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:pg23661:7:33
# text = So there were fireworks and torchlight processions, and set pieces at the Crystal Palace, with "Blessings on our Prince" and "Long Live our Royal Darling" in different-colored fires; and the most private of boarding schools had a half holiday; and even the children of plumbers and authors had tuppence each given them to spend as they liked.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux:pass	_	_
4	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	torchlight	torchlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	processions	procession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Crystal	Crystal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Live	Live	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	41	advmod	_	_
41	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	boarding	boarding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	48	compound	_	_
48	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	even	even	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	plumbers	plumber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	conj	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
59	tuppence	tuppence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
60	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	61	nsubj:pass	_	_
61	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
62	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	obj	_	_
63	to	to	PART	TO	_	64	mark	_	_
64	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	advcl	_	_
65	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	67	mark	_	_
66	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
67	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	61	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the private | a half holiday |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | each |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme |
| 4 | **spend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **like** | past | schools *= school* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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