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title: And, indeed, soccer was not at all popular for some time afterward. — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And, indeed, soccer was not at all popular for some time afterward. Who acts: soccer. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 17

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And, indeed, soccer was not at all popular for some time afterward.

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**Who acts:** soccer · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** all

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soccer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg23661:103`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:2:17
# text = And, indeed, soccer was not at all popular for some time afterward.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
10	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | soccer |  |  | all | time | indeed, popular *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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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