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title: The first poem dealt with the noble conduct of the mayor in arrangin… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The first poem dealt with the noble conduct of the mayor in arranging to have the dragon tied up. Who acts: mayor. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 161

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The first poem dealt with the noble conduct of the mayor in arranging to have the dragon tied up.

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**Who acts:** mayor · **What happens:** deal, arrange, have, tie up, conduct · **To what, where:** first poem, dragon, mayor

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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), 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:pg23661:12:161
# text = The first poem dealt with the noble conduct of the mayor in arranging to have the dragon tied up.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	arranging	arrange	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | participle |  | the first poem *not said here* |  |  |  | with the noble conduct of the mayor | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with conduct=Theme |
| 2 | **arrange** | gerund | the mayor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | the mayor *not said here* | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
| 4 | **tie up** | participle |  | the dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **conduct** |  |  | the mayor |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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