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title: The pack squeezed through the town gates and off across country to h… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The pack squeezed through the town gates and off across country to hunt the dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 45

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The pack squeezed through the town gates and off across country to hunt the dragon.

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**What happens:** squeeze, hunt · **To what, where:** pack, town gates, dragon

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg23661:13:45
# text = The pack squeezed through the town gates and off across country to hunt the dragon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	off	off	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | participle · passive |  | the pack |  | the town gates and country |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme through gate=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive |  | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=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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