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title: And rising from within the cold coil of the frozen dragon the North… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And rising from within the cold coil of the frozen dragon the North Pole shot up like a pillar made of one great diamond, and every now and then it cracked a little, from sheer cold. Who acts: rising, Pole. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree a
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 58

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And rising from within the cold coil of the frozen dragon the North Pole shot up like a pillar made of one great diamond, and every now and then it cracked a little, from sheer cold.

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**Who acts:** rising, Pole · **What happens:** rise, freeze, shoot up, make, crack · **To what, where:** cold coil, pillar, little, sheer

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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 (rising, Pole), 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:pg23661:8:58
# text = And rising from within the cold coil of the frozen dragon the North Pole shot up like a pillar made of one great diamond, and every now and then it cracked a little, from sheer cold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	coil	coil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	sheer	sheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  | the cold coil of the frozen dragon |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from coil=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **shoot up** | past | rising |  |  |  |  | like a pillar | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | a pillar *not said here* |  |  |  | of one great diamond | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **crack** | past | Pole | a little |  | sheer | now; then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=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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