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title: He tried it by practice and the unitary method, by multiplication, a… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He tried it by practice and the unitary method, by multiplication, and by rule-of-three-and-three-quarters. Who acts: Nigel. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 122

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He tried it by practice and the unitary method, by multiplication, and by rule-of-three-and-three-quarters.

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**Who acts:** Nigel · **What happens:** try · **To what, where:** piece

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nigel), 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:pg23661:10:122
# text = He tried it by practice and the unitary method, by multiplication, and by rule-of-three-and-three-quarters.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	unitary	unitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	multiplication	multiplication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Nigel | piece |  |  |  | by practice and the unitary method and multiplication; of three three quarters | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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