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title: And just when George and Jane were starting for the North Pole, the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 86

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And just when George and Jane were starting for the North Pole, the Arctic regions had come down very nearly as far as Forest Hill, so that, as the children walked on, it grew colder and colder, and presently they saw that the fields were covered with snow, and there were great icicles hanging from all the hedges and gates.

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**Who acts:** George, Arctic regions, children, Pole, regions, great icicles · **What happens:** start, come down, walk on, grow, see, cover · **To what, where:** fields, hedges · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (George, Arctic regions, children, Pole), 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:pg23661:7:86
# text = And just when George and Jane were starting for the North Pole, the Arctic regions had come down very nearly as far as Forest Hill, so that, as the children walked on, it grew colder and colder, and presently they saw that the fields were covered with snow, and there were great icicles hanging from all the hedges and gates.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
35	on	on	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
39	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	xcomp	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	ccomp	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	57	expl	_	_
57	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
58	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	icicles	icicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
60	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	59	acl	_	_
61	from	from	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	64	det:predet	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past · progressive | George and Jane |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come down** | past · perfect | the Arctic regions |  |  |  |  | for the North Pole; down, far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk on** | past | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | past | Pole |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past | regions *= region* |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the fields |  |  |  | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme |
| 7 | **be** | past | great icicles |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hang** | gerund | great icicles *not said here* |  |  | all hedges and gates |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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