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title: Then they called for camphor and bitter apple and oil of lavender an… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they called for camphor and bitter apple and oil of lavender and yellow soap and borax; and some of the dwarfs even started to get these things, but long before any of them could get to the chemist's, all was over. Who acts: dwarfs, some, any, all. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesb
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 14

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Then they called for camphor and bitter apple and oil of lavender and yellow soap and borax; and some of the dwarfs even started to get these things, but long before any of them could get to the chemist's, all was over.

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**Who acts:** dwarfs, some, any, all · **What happens:** call, start, get, be · **To what, where:** things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dwarfs, some, any, all), 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:pg23661:9:14
# text = Then they called for camphor and bitter apple and oil of lavender and yellow soap and borax; and some of the dwarfs even started to get these things, but long before any of them could get to the chemist's, all was over.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	camphor	camphor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	lavender	lavender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	borax	borax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
33	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	chemist	chemist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	over	over	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* |  |  |  | then | for camphor and bitter apple and oil of lavender and yellow soap and borax | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for camphor=Recipient |
| 2 | **start** | past | some |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* | this things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get** | could | any |  |  |  |  | to the chemist *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to chemist=Result |
| 5 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |

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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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