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title: The red of your rubies will lie on its lips, and its skin will be cl… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The red of your rubies will lie on its lips, and its skin will be clear and pale as your pearls. Who acts: red rubies, skin, your. 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 98

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The red of your rubies will lie on its lips, and its skin will be clear and pale as your pearls.

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**Who acts:** red rubies, skin, your · **What happens:** lie, be, pearl · **To what, where:** lips

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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 (red rubies, skin, your), 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:pg23661:9:98
# text = The red of your rubies will lie on its lips, and its skin will be clear and pale as your pearls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | future | your red rubies |  |  | ruby's lips |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lip=Location |
| 2 | **is** | future | ruby's skin |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | ruby's skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as your pearls | tree rules |
| 4 | **pearl** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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