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title: _To Rosamund, chief among those for whom these tales are told, The B… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: _To Rosamund, chief among those for whom these tales are told, The Book of Dragons is dedicated in the confident hope that she, one of these days, will dedicate a book of her very own making to the one who now bids eight dreadful dragons crouch in all humbleness at those little brown feet. Who acts:
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 65

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\_To Rosamund, chief among those for whom these tales are told, The Book of Dragons is dedicated in the confident hope that she, one of these days, will dedicate a book of her very own making to the one who now bids eight dreadful dragons crouch in all humbleness at those little brown feet.

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**Who acts:** Rosamund, one, eight dreadful dragons · **What happens:** tell, be, dedicate, make, bid, crouch · **To what, where:** tales, confident hope, book, one, humbleness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rosamund, one, eight dreadful dragons), 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:pg23661:1:65
# text = _To Rosamund, chief among those for whom these tales are told, The Book of Dragons is dedicated in the confident hope that she, one of these days, will dedicate a book of her very own making to the one who now bids eight dreadful dragons crouch in all humbleness at those little brown feet.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Rosamund	Rosamund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Dragons	Dragons	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	dedicated	dedicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	that	that	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	dedicate	dedicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nmod	_	_
41	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
47	bids	bid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
49	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	crouch	crouch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	ccomp	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	det	_	_
54	humbleness	humbleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	59	det	_	_
57	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
58	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | this tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Rosamund and the Book of Dragons |  |  | the confident hope that Dragons |  | dedicated *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dedicate** | future | Rosamund and the Book of Dragons *not said here* | a book of Dragons's own |  |  |  |  | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | Rosamund and the Book of Dragons *not said here* |  | the one |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **bid** | present | the one |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **crouch** | present | eight dreadful dragons |  |  | all humbleness |  | at that little brown feet | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in humbleness=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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