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title: It doesn't look so _very_ far--we could be back before they had time… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: It doesn't look so _very_ far--we could be back before they had time to get dreadfully angry." Who acts: lawn, we, George. 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 79

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It doesn't look so \_very\_ far--we could be back before they had time to get dreadfully angry."

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**Who acts:** lawn, we, George · **What happens:** not look, be, have, get

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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 (lawn, we, George), 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:pg23661:7:79
# text = It doesn't look so _very_ far--we could be back before they had time to get dreadfully angry."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** | present · do-support | lawn |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | could | we |  |  |  |  | back *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | George |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | George *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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