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title: And by the time the nation had gotten dry again it was interested in… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And by the time the nation had gotten dry again it was interested in the new invention for toasting muffins by electricity, and all the dragons were almost forgotten. Who acts: nation. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 6

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And by the time the nation had gotten dry again it was interested in the new invention for toasting muffins by electricity, and all the dragons were almost forgotten.

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**Who acts:** nation · **What happens:** get, be, toast, forget · **To what, where:** nation, new invention, muffins, dragons

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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 (nation), 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:pg23661:7:6
# text = And by the time the nation had gotten dry again it was interested in the new invention for toasting muffins by electricity, and all the dragons were almost forgotten.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gotten	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	toasting	toast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
20	muffins	muffin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect · passive |  | the nation |  |  | again; time | dry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | nation |  |  | the new invention |  | interested *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **toast** | gerund |  | muffins |  |  |  | by electricity | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent muffin=Patient |
| 4 | **forget** | past · passive |  | all dragons |  |  |  | almost *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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