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title: The dragon had not moved yet--but then he might at any moment get wa… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The dragon had not moved yet--but then he might at any moment get warm enough to move, and though George and Jane were now warm they were not comfortable nor easy in their minds. Who acts: dragon, George, friends. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8, with its dependency
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 126

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The dragon had not moved yet--but then he might at any moment get warm enough to move, and though George and Jane were now warm they were not comfortable nor easy in their minds.

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**Who acts:** dragon, George, friends · **What happens:** not move, get, move, be, not be, mind · **To what, where:** minds

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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 (dragon, George, friends), 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:pg23661:8:126
# text = The dragon had not moved yet--but then he might at any moment get warm enough to move, and though George and Jane were now warm they were not comfortable nor easy in their minds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc	_	_
34	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | past · perfect | the dragon |  |  |  | yet |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | might | the dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | the dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | George and Jane |  |  |  | now | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  |  | friends's minds |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **mind** |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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