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title: Then he fastened the clasps with the rubies and turquoises in them a… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he fastened the clasps with the rubies and turquoises in them and sent for the Chancellor, who had been ill since Saturday, and so had not been eaten with the rest of the Parliament, and he said: "What animal ends in 'cora'?" Who acts: Dragon, Chancellor, animal. A sentence of «The Book of Drag
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 30

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Then he fastened the clasps with the rubies and turquoises in them and sent for the Chancellor, who had been ill since Saturday, and so had not been eaten with the rest of the Parliament, and he said: "What animal ends in 'cora'?"

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**Who acts:** Dragon, Chancellor, animal · **What happens:** fasten, send, be, not eat, say, end · **To what, where:** clasps, cora · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dragon, Chancellor, animal), 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:pg23661:2:30
# text = Then he fastened the clasps with the rubies and turquoises in them and sent for the Chancellor, who had been ill since Saturday, and so had not been eaten with the rest of the Parliament, and he said: "What animal ends in 'cora'?"
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clasps	clasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	turquoises	turquoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
22	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	since	since	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	46	obj	_	_
45	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	ccomp	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	cora	cora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past | Dragon | the clasps |  |  | then | with the rubies and turquoises in turquoises | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent clasp=Patient with ruby=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **send** | past | Dragon *not said here* |  |  |  | saturday | for the Chancellor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | the Chancellor |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | past · perfect · passive | Dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the rest of the Parliament | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Dragon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **end** *in a quote* | present | animal |  |  | cora |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector what=Eventuality |

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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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