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title: When the Queen got home, sure enough there was the baby lying in the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Queen got home, sure enough there was the baby lying in the cradle with the Royal arms blazoned on it, crying as naturally as possible. Who acts: Queen, baby. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 121

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When the Queen got home, sure enough there was the baby lying in the cradle with the Royal arms blazoned on it, crying as naturally as possible.

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**Who acts:** Queen, baby · **What happens:** get, be, lie, blazon, cry · **To what, where:** cradle, Royal arms, baby

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, baby), 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:pg23661:9:121
# text = When the Queen got home, sure enough there was the baby lying in the cradle with the Royal arms blazoned on it, crying as naturally as possible.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Royal	Royal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	blazoned	blazon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | home, sure *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** | past | the baby |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the baby *not said here* |  |  | the cradle with the Royal arms |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cradle=Location |
| 4 | **blazon** | participle |  | the Royal arms *not said here* |  | baby |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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