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title: "Tumble for your life!" cried George, and tumbled as before, stoppin… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tumble for your life!" cried George, and tumbled as before, stopping in the only possible way, and Jane stopped on top of him, and they crawled to the edge and came suddenly on a butterfly collector, who was looking for specimens with a pair of blue glasses and a blue net and a blue book with color
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 5

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"Tumble for your life!" cried George, and tumbled as before, stopping in the only possible way, and Jane stopped on top of him, and they crawled to the edge and came suddenly on a butterfly collector, who was looking for specimens with a pair of blue glasses and a blue net and a blue book with colored plates.

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**Who acts:** George, Jane, bits, butterfly collector · **What happens:** tumble, cry, stop, crawl, come, look · **To what, where:** only possible way, top, edge, butterfly collector · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Jane, bits, butterfly collector), 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:pg23661:8:5
# text = "Tumble for your life!" cried George, and tumbled as before, stopping in the only possible way, and Jane stopped on top of him, and they crawled to the edge and came suddenly on a butterfly collector, who was looking for specimens with a pair of blue glasses and a blue net and a blue book with colored plates.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tumble	tumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
39	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	acl	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
64	with	with	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tumble** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for your life | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | George |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tumble** | participle | George *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **stop** | gerund | George *not said here* |  |  | the only possible way |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 5 | **stop** | past | Jane |  |  | top of George |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **crawl** | past | bits *= bit* |  |  | the edge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination |
| 7 | **come** | past | bits *= bit* *not said here* |  |  | a butterfly collector |  | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on collector=Location |
| 8 | **look** | past · progressive | a butterfly collector |  |  |  |  | for specimens; with a pair of blue glasses and a blue net and a blue book with colored plates | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for specimen=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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