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title: He does not argue quite so much, and he agreed to be apprenticed to… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He does not argue quite so much, and he agreed to be apprenticed to a locksmith, so that he might one day be able to pick the lock of the cockatrice's front door--and learn some more of the things that other people don't know. Who acts: boy, other people. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Ne
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 250

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He does not argue quite so much, and he agreed to be apprenticed to a locksmith, so that he might one day be able to pick the lock of the cockatrice's front door--and learn some more of the things that other people don't know.

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**Who acts:** boy, other people · **What happens:** not argue, agree, apprentice, be, pick, learn · **To what, where:** lock, more, things

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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 (boy, other 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:pg23661:14:250
# text = He does not argue quite so much, and he agreed to be apprenticed to a locksmith, so that he might one day be able to pick the lock of the cockatrice's front door--and learn some more of the things that other people don't know.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	apprenticed	apprentice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	locksmith	locksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
40	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	obj	_	_
46	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
48	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · do-support | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **apprentice** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a locksmith | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **is** | might | boy |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pick** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | the lock of the cockatrice's front door |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient |
| 6 | **learn** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | some more |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | other people | the things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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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