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title: This great slide is made for the convenience of the Polar bears, who… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: This great slide is made for the convenience of the Polar bears, who, during the winter months, get their food from the Army and Navy Stores--and it is the most perfect slide in the world. Who acts: slide. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree an
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 99

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This great slide is made for the convenience of the Polar bears, who, during the winter months, get their food from the Army and Navy Stores--and it is the most perfect slide in the world.

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**Who acts:** slide · **What happens:** make, get, be · **To what, where:** great slide, food, Army, perfect slide, world

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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 (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:pg23661:7:99
# text = This great slide is made for the convenience of the Polar bears, who, during the winter months, get their food from the Army and Navy Stores--and it is the most perfect slide in the world.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	convenience	convenience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	during	during	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Navy	navy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Stores	store	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | this great slide |  |  |  | for the convenience of the Polar bears and the winter months | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for convenience=Asset |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive |  | George's food |  | the Army and Navy Stores |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from army=Source |
| 3 | **is a** | present | slide | the perfect slide |  | the world |  |  | 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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