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title: With illustrations by H. R. Millar — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: With illustrations by H. R. Millar Who acts: H. R.. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 4

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With illustrations by H. R. Millar

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**Who acts:** H. R. · **What happens:** illustrate

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (H. R.), 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:pg23661:1:4
# text = With illustrations by H. R. Millar
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	R.	R.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Millar	Millar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **illustrate** |  | H. R. |  |  |  |  |  | nom illustration «communication transitive»: by=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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