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title: But the mayor said he need not trouble; and now he offered a thousan… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But the mayor said he need not trouble; and now he offered a thousand pounds to anyone who would get the dragon chained up again. Who acts: mayor, Dragon. 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 212

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But the mayor said he need not trouble; and now he offered a thousand pounds to anyone who would get the dragon chained up again.

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**Who acts:** mayor, Dragon · **What happens:** say, not need, offer, get, chain up · **To what, where:** trouble, thousand pounds, anyone, dragon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Dragon), 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:pg23661:12:212
# text = But the mayor said he need not trouble; and now he offered a thousand pounds to anyone who would get the dragon chained up again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mayor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **need** | infinitive | Dragon | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | past | Dragon | thousand pounds | anyone |  | now |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent pound=Theme to anyone=Goal |
| 4 | **get** | would |  | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus |
| 5 | **chain up** | participle |  | the dragon *not said here* |  |  | again |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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