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title: And off they all fluttered, and the white grouse flew off, and the s… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And off they all fluttered, and the white grouse flew off, and the sealskin dwarfs were all dead, and the fires went out, and George and Jane were left alone in the dark with the dragon! Who acts: Millions, white grouse, sealskin dwarfs, fires. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Openi
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 20

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And off they all fluttered, and the white grouse flew off, and the sealskin dwarfs were all dead, and the fires went out, and George and Jane were left alone in the dark with the dragon!

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**Who acts:** Millions, white grouse, sealskin dwarfs, fires · **What happens:** flutter, fly off, be, go out, leave · **To what, where:** George, dark

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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 (Millions, white grouse, sealskin dwarfs, fires), 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:pg23661:9:20
# text = And off they all fluttered, and the white grouse flew off, and the sealskin dwarfs were all dead, and the fires went out, and George and Jane were left alone in the dark with the dragon!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	off	off	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	grouse	grouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
34	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flutter** | past | Millions *= million* |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly off** | past | the white grouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sealskin dwarfs |  |  |  |  | all, dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go out** | past | the fires |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leave** | past · passive |  | George and Jane |  | the dark |  | with the dragon; alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dark=Location |

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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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