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title: And there, sure enough, in the collector's butterfly net sat the gre… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And there, sure enough, in the collector's butterfly net sat the great Arctic moth, listening attentively to the conversation. 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 17

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And there, sure enough, in the collector's butterfly net sat the great Arctic moth, listening attentively to the conversation.

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**What happens:** sit, listen · **To what, where:** great Arctic moth, butterfly net

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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: 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:pg23661:8:17
# text = And there, sure enough, in the collector's butterfly net sat the great Arctic moth, listening attentively to the conversation.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | the great Arctic moth |  | the collector's butterfly net |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent moth=Theme in net=Location |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the conversation; attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conversation=Theme |

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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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