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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 93

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For in front of them, running straight and smooth right away to the Northern Lights, lay a great wide road of pure dark ice, and on each side were tall trees all sparkling with white frost, and from the boughs of the trees hung strings of stars threaded on fine moonbeams, and shining so brightly that it was like a beautiful fairy daylight.

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**Who acts:** tall trees, boughs, road · **What happens:** run, smooth, lay, be, sparkle, hang · **To what, where:** great wide road, side, strings, stars

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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 (tall trees, boughs, road), 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:pg23661:7:93
# text = For in front of them, running straight and smooth right away to the Northern Lights, lay a great wide road of pure dark ice, and on each side were tall trees all sparkling with white frost, and from the boughs of the trees hung strings of stars threaded on fine moonbeams, and shining so brightly that it was like a beautiful fairy daylight.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	smooth	smooth	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Lights	Light	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
32	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
33	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
48	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
49	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	_
52	threaded	thread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	moonbeams	moonbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	conj	_	_
59	so	so	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
61	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	68	mark	_	_
62	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
63	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	cop	_	_
64	like	like	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
66	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
67	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **smooth** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | present |  | a great wide road of pure dark ice |  |  |  | for front of children | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent road=Result for front=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **be** | past | tall trees |  |  | each side |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 5 | **sparkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with white frost; all *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with frost=Theme |
| 6 | **hang** | past | the boughs of the trees | strings of stars |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient |
| 7 | **thread** | participle |  | stars *not said here* |  |  |  | on fine moonbeams | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on moonbeam=Co-Patient |
| 8 | **shine** | gerund | the boughs of the trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | road |  |  |  |  | like a beautiful fairy daylight | 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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