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title: All the kitties and the milk the Manticora had had seemed to have st… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: All the kitties and the milk the Manticora had had seemed to have strengthened its mew wonderfully. Who acts: Manticora, kitties, milk. 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 49

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All the kitties and the milk the Manticora had had seemed to have strengthened its mew wonderfully.

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**Who acts:** Manticora, kitties, milk · **What happens:** have, seem, strengthen, mew · **To what, where:** kitties, mew

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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 (Manticora, kitties, milk), 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:pg23661:2:49
# text = All the kitties and the milk the Manticora had had seemed to have strengthened its mew wonderfully.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kitties	kitty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	xcomp	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mew	mew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect | the Manticora | all kitties and the milk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitty=Patient |
| 2 | **seem** | past | all kitties and the milk |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **strengthen** | to-infinitive · perfect | all kitties and the milk *not said here* | milk's mew |  |  |  | wonderfully *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mew=Patient |
| 4 | **mew** |  | milk |  |  |  |  |  | nom mew «event intransitive»: poss=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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