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title: All around the Pole, making a bright ring about it, were hundreds of… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: All around the Pole, making a bright ring about it, were hundreds of little fires, and the flames of them did not flicker and twist, but went up blue and green and rosy and straight like the stalks of dream lilies. Who acts: Pole, hundreds, flames. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, O
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 32

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All around the Pole, making a bright ring about it, were hundreds of little fires, and the flames of them did not flicker and twist, but went up blue and green and rosy and straight like the stalks of dream lilies.

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**Who acts:** Pole, hundreds, flames · **What happens:** make, be, not flicker, twist, go up, flame · **To what, where:** bright ring, hundreds

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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 (Pole, hundreds, flames), 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:pg23661:8:32
# text = All around the Pole, making a bright ring about it, were hundreds of little fires, and the flames of them did not flicker and twist, but went up blue and green and rosy and straight like the stalks of dream lilies.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	flicker	flicker	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	twist	twist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | the Pole *not said here* | a bright ring |  |  |  | about Pole | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the Pole's hundreds |  |  |  | of little fires | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **flicker** | past · do-support | the Pole's hundreds |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **twist** | infinitive | the Pole's hundreds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go up** | past |  |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **flame** |  | flames *= flame* |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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