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title: Of course some grown-up or other noticed at once that the boots of G… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course some grown-up or other noticed at once that the boots of George and Jane were wet and muddy, and that they had both been sitting down in a very damp place, so they were sent to bed immediately. Who acts: boots. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9, with its dep
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 49

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Of course some grown-up or other noticed at once that the boots of George and Jane were wet and muddy, and that they had both been sitting down in a very damp place, so they were sent to bed immediately.

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**Who acts:** boots · **What happens:** grow up, notice, be, sit down, send · **To what, where:** some, damp place, boots, bed

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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 (boots), 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:pg23661:9:49
# text = Of course some grown-up or other noticed at once that the boots of George and Jane were wet and muddy, and that they had both been sitting down in a very damp place, so they were sent to bed immediately.
1	Of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	both	both	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux	_	_
30	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
44	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | participle · passive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the boots of George and Jane |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the boots of George and Jane *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit down** | past · perfect · progressive |  |  |  | a damp place |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 6 | **send** | past · passive |  | boots *= boot* |  | bed |  | immediately *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bed=Destination |

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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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