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title: The second described the splendid assistance rendered by the corpora… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The second described the splendid assistance rendered by the corporation. Who acts: second. 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 162

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The second described the splendid assistance rendered by the corporation.

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**Who acts:** second · **What happens:** describe, render · **To what, where:** splendid assistance

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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 (second), 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:pg23661:12:162
# text = The second described the splendid assistance rendered by the corporation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | past | the second | the splendid assistance |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme |
| 2 | **render** | participle |  | the splendid assistance *not said here* |  |  |  | by the corporation | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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