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title: For the griffin had been artificially made by the King-enchanter, an… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: For the griffin had been artificially made by the King-enchanter, and the two halves had never really got used to each other. Who acts: King enchanter, two halves. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 45

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For the griffin had been artificially made by the King-enchanter, and the two halves had never really got used to each other.

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**Who acts:** King enchanter, two halves · **What happens:** make, have, not use

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King enchanter, two halves), 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:pg23661:11:45
# text = For the griffin had been artificially made by the King-enchanter, and the two halves had never really got used to each other.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	artificially	artificially	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	22	obl	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | the King enchanter |  |  |  |  | for the griffin; artificially *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for griffin=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **have** | past | the two halves |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **use** | past · passive | the two halves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to each | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |

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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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