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title: (We know there were fiery dragons in those days, like George and his… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 89

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(We know there were fiery dragons in those days, like George and his dragon in the legend; but, there! it's not the same world nowadays.

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**Who acts:** We, fiery dragons, dragon · **What happens:** know, be, not be · **To what, where:** same world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, fiery dragons, 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:pg14241:30:89
# text = (We know there were fiery dragons in those days, like George and his dragon in the legend; but, there! it's not the same world nowadays.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
31	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | past | fiery dragons |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | dragon | the same world |  |  |  | nowadays *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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