--- title: A third of it went to pay for a banquet to the mayor and corporation… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: A third of it went to pay for a banquet to the mayor and corporation; another third was spent in buying a gold collar with a dragon on it for the mayor and gold medals with dragons on them for the corporation; and what was left went in committee expenses. Who acts: third. A sentence of «The Book of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/165/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/) / 165 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 165 A third of it went to pay for a banquet to the mayor and corporation; another third was spent in buying a gold collar with a dragon on it for the mayor and gold medals with dragons on them for the corporation; and what was left went in committee expenses. **Who acts:** third · **What happens:** go, pay, spend, buy, leave · **To what, where:** third, gold collar, committee expenses 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 (third), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:12:165 # text = A third of it went to pay for a banquet to the mayor and corporation; another third was spent in buying a gold collar with a dragon on it for the mayor and gold medals with dragons on them for the corporation; and what was left went in committee expenses. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nmod _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mayor mayor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 corporation corporation NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 21 in in SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 buying buy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 mayor mayor NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 medals medal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 corporation corporation NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ; ; PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 49 nsubj _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 committee committee NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 expenses expense NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | a third of committee | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | a third of committee *not said here* | | | | | for a banquet; to the mayor and corporation | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for banquet=Theme | | 3 | **spend** | past · passive | | another third | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 4 | **buy** | gerund | | a gold collar | | | | with a dragon on committee; for the mayor and gold medals; with dragons on medals; for the corporation | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent collar=Theme for mayor=Beneficiary | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 6 | **go** | past | | | | committee expenses | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in expense=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/164/) - next →: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/166/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)