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title: When the great white Arctic moth had returned thanks in a suitable s… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: When the great white Arctic moth had returned thanks in a suitable speech, George and Jane took a sideways slanting run and started sliding again, between the star-lamps along the great slide toward the North Pole. Who acts: thanks. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8, 
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 27

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When the great white Arctic moth had returned thanks in a suitable speech, George and Jane took a sideways slanting run and started sliding again, between the star-lamps along the great slide toward the North Pole.

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**Who acts:** thanks · **What happens:** return, take, slant, start, slide · **To what, where:** great white Arctic moth, slanting run, star lamps

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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 (thanks), 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:pg23661:8:27
# text = When the great white Arctic moth had returned thanks in a suitable speech, George and Jane took a sideways slanting run and started sliding again, between the star-lamps along the great slide toward the North Pole.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
9	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	slanting	slant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	xcomp	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
33	along	along	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past · perfect · passive |  | the great white Arctic moth |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | thanks in a suitable speech | a slanting run |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Theme |
| 3 | **slant** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sideways *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **start** | past | thanks in a suitable speech *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **slide** | gerund | thanks in a suitable speech *not said here* |  |  | the star lamps along the great slide toward the North Pole | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between lamp=Trajectory |

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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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