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description: Looking at the wicked seal-faces all around them, George and Jane felt that their fate was sealed indeed. Who acts: George, faces. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 104

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Looking at the wicked seal-faces all around them, George and Jane felt that their fate was sealed indeed.

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**Who acts:** George, faces · **What happens:** look, feel, seal, fate · **To what, where:** fate

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, faces), 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:pg23661:8:104
# text = Looking at the wicked seal-faces all around them, George and Jane felt that their fate was sealed indeed.
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund | George and Jane *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around faces *= face*; at the wicked seal faces | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | George and Jane |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **seal** | past · passive |  | faces's fate |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **fate** |  | faces *= face* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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