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title: Few of you who had not seen a pack of hippopotamuses in full cry wil… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Few of you who had not seen a pack of hippopotamuses in full cry will be able to imagine at all what the hunt was like. Who acts: Few, hunt. 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 46

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Few of you who had not seen a pack of hippopotamuses in full cry will be able to imagine at all what the hunt was like.

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**Who acts:** Few, hunt · **What happens:** not see, be, imagine · **To what, where:** pack, all

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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: who acts (Few, hunt), 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:pg23661:13:46
# text = Few of you who had not seen a pack of hippopotamuses in full cry will be able to imagine at all what the hunt was like.
1	Few	few	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hippopotamuses	hippopotamus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | Few of you | a pack of hippopotamuses in full cry |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pack=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | future | Few of you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **imagine** | to-infinitive | Few of you *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot all=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the hunt |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |

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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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