--- title: Popular opinion held that the Soccer Players, being tough and hard,… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Popular opinion held that the Soccer Players, being tough and hard, had disagreed with the Dragon so much that he had gone away to some place where they only play cats' cradle and games that do not make you hard and tough. Who acts: Popular opinion, Soccer Players, opinion, Players. A sentence of «T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/) / 20 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 20 Popular opinion held that the Soccer Players, being tough and hard, had disagreed with the Dragon so much that he had gone away to some place where they only play cats' cradle and games that do not make you hard and tough. **Who acts:** Popular opinion, Soccer Players, opinion, Players, games · **What happens:** hold, be, disagree, go away, play, not make · **To what, where:** place, cradle, you 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 (Popular opinion, Soccer Players, opinion, Players), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:2:20 # text = Popular opinion held that the Soccer Players, being tough and hard, had disagreed with the Dragon so much that he had gone away to some place where they only play cats' cradle and games that do not make you hard and tough. 1 Popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Soccer Soccer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Players Player PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ _ 10 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 disagreed disagree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 much much ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ' 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 39 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | Popular opinion | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | gerund | the Soccer Players | | | | | tough *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | the Soccer Players *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **disagree** | past · perfect | Popular opinion *not said here* | | | | | with the Dragon | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with dragon=Co-Agent | | 5 | **go away** | past · perfect | opinion | | | some place | | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **play** | present | Players *= player* | cats's cradle and games | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme | | 7 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | games | you | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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. **Text:** «The Book of Dragons» by E. 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