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title: So Johnnie arranged that people should go around with carts every da… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So Johnnie arranged that people should go around with carts every day to collect the children's bread and milk for the dragon. Who acts: Johnnie, people. 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 273

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So Johnnie arranged that people should go around with carts every day to collect the children's bread and milk for the dragon.

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**Who acts:** Johnnie, people · **What happens:** arrange, go around, collect · **To what, where:** bread

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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 (Johnnie, people), 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:pg23661:12:273
# text = So Johnnie arranged that people should go around with carts every day to collect the children's bread and milk for the dragon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | past | Johnnie |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go around** | should | people |  |  |  | day | with carts; around *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with cart=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **collect** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the children's bread and milk |  |  |  | for the dragon | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |

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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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