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title: Of course there are a million ways of going south from the North Pol… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course there are a million ways of going south from the North Pole--so you will own that it was lucky for George and Jane when the dragon took the right way and suddenly got his heavy feet on the great slide. Who acts: million ways, you, Pole, dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nes
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 35

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Of course there are a million ways of going south from the North Pole--so you will own that it was lucky for George and Jane when the dragon took the right way and suddenly got his heavy feet on the great slide.

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**Who acts:** million ways, you, Pole, dragon · **What happens:** be, go, own, take, get · **To what, where:** North Pole, right way, heavy feet, great slide

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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 (million ways, you, Pole, dragon), 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:pg23661:9:35
# text = Of course there are a million ways of going south from the North Pole--so you will own that it was lucky for George and Jane when the dragon took the right way and suddenly got his heavy feet on the great slide.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	south	south	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
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	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | million ways |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | million ways *not said here* |  |  | the North Pole |  | south *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from pole=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **own** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is** | past | Pole |  |  |  |  | for George and Jane; lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | past | the dragon | the right way |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | past | the dragon *not said here* | way's heavy feet |  | the great slide |  | suddenly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on slide=Source |

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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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