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title: So the mayor put his name down for five pounds, and the corporation… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So the mayor put his name down for five pounds, and the corporation each gave three, and other people gave their guineas and half guineas and half crowns and crowns, and while the subscription was being made the mayor ordered three poems at his own expense from the town poet to celebrate the occasio
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 159

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So the mayor put his name down for five pounds, and the corporation each gave three, and other people gave their guineas and half guineas and half crowns and crowns, and while the subscription was being made the mayor ordered three poems at his own expense from the town poet to celebrate the occasion.

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**Who acts:** mayor, corporation, other people, three poems, preserver · **What happens:** put down, give, make, order, celebrate, name · **To what, where:** name, three, guineas, subscription, three poems, own expense

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mayor, corporation, other people, three poems), 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:pg23661:12:159
# text = So the mayor put his name down for five pounds, and the corporation each gave three, and other people gave their guineas and half guineas and half crowns and crowns, and while the subscription was being made the mayor ordered three poems at his own expense from the town poet to celebrate the occasion.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	guineas	guinea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	27	compound	_	_
27	guineas	guinea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	30	compound	_	_
30	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	subscription	subscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
39	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
44	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | past | the mayor | preserver's name |  |  |  | for five pounds; down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent name=Goal |
| 2 | **give** | past | the corporation  each | three |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | other people | people's guineas and half guineas and half crowns and crowns |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guinea=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive |  | the subscription |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **order** | past | the mayor | three poems |  | preserver's own expense from the town poet |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent poem=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **celebrate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | three poems *not said here* | the occasion |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Theme |
| 7 | **name** |  | preserver |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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