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title: However popular the King might become during the week, the Dragon wa… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: However popular the King might become during the week, the Dragon was sure to do something on Saturday to upset the people's loyalty. Who acts: King, Dragon. 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 52

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However popular the King might become during the week, the Dragon was sure to do something on Saturday to upset the people's loyalty.

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**Who acts:** King, Dragon · **What happens:** become, be, do, upset · **To what, where:** something, loyalty

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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 (King, Dragon), 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:pg23661:2:52
# text = However popular the King might become during the week, the Dragon was sure to do something on Saturday to upset the people's loyalty.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	upset	upset	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | might | the King |  |  |  | week | popular *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Dragon |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | the Dragon *not said here* | something |  |  | saturday |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 4 | **upset** | to-infinitive | the Dragon *not said here* | the people's loyalty |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus loyalty=Experiencer |

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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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