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title: And he took a run on the frozen snow, and Jane took a run when she s… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And he took a run on the frozen snow, and Jane took a run when she saw him do it, and the next moment they were sliding away, each with feet half a yard apart, along the great slide that leads to the North Pole. Who acts: way, Jane, next moment, great slide. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 98

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And he took a run on the frozen snow, and Jane took a run when she saw him do it, and the next moment they were sliding away, each with feet half a yard apart, along the great slide that leads to the North Pole.

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**Who acts:** way, Jane, next moment, great slide · **What happens:** take, freeze, see, do, slide away, lead · **To what, where:** run, frozen snow, way

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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 (way, Jane, next moment, great slide), 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:pg23661:7:98
# text = And he took a run on the frozen snow, and Jane took a run when she saw him do it, and the next moment they were sliding away, each with feet half a yard apart, along the great slide that leads to the North Pole.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
35	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	37	det:predet	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
38	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	along	along	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
45	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | way | a run |  | the frozen snow |  | with feet; each *obl*; apart *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | past | Jane | a run |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | Jane | way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | infinitive | way *not said here* | run |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **slide away** | past · progressive | the next moment |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **lead** | present | the great slide |  |  |  |  | to the North Pole | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to pole=Patient |

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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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