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title: He was the kind called _Draco centipedis_ in the learned books. — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He was the kind called _Draco centipedis_ in the learned books. Who acts: drakling, kind. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 148

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He was the kind called \_Draco centipedis\_ in the learned books.

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**Who acts:** drakling, kind · **What happens:** be, call, learn · **To what, where:** kind, Draco centipedis, learned books · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drakling, kind), 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:pg23661:14:148
# text = He was the kind called _Draco centipedis_ in the learned books.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Draco	Draco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	centipedis	centipedis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | drakling | the kind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle | the kind *not said here* | Draco centipedis |  | the learned books |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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