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title: The rows of trees went as straight as ruled lines away--away and awa… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The rows of trees went as straight as ruled lines away--away and away--and at the other end of them shone the Aurora Borealis. Who acts: rows, Aurora Borealis. 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 95

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The rows of trees went as straight as ruled lines away--away and away--and at the other end of them shone the Aurora Borealis.

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**Who acts:** rows, Aurora Borealis · **What happens:** go, rule, shine · **To what, where:** other end

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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 (rows, Aurora Borealis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg23661:678`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:7:95
# text = The rows of trees went as straight as ruled lines away--away and away--and at the other end of them shone the Aurora Borealis.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the rows of trees |  |  |  |  | away, straight *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rule** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shine** | past | the Aurora Borealis |  |  |  | at the other end of trees |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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