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title: Off he went, full speed, between the starry lamps, toward Forest Hil… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Off he went, full speed, between the starry lamps, toward Forest Hill and the Crystal Palace. Who acts: way. 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 36

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Off he went, full speed, between the starry lamps, toward Forest Hill and the Crystal Palace.

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**Who acts:** way · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** full speed, starry lamps

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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 (way), 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:pg23661:9:36
# text = Off he went, full speed, between the starry lamps, toward Forest Hill and the Crystal Palace.
1	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	starry	starry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | way | full speed |  | the starry lamps toward Forest Hill and the Crystal Palace |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between lamp=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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