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title: Then one day a favorite rabbit of the Princess's, called Frederick,… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Then one day a favorite rabbit of the Princess's, called Frederick, mysteriously disappeared, and then came a terrible morning when the Mexican lapdog was missing. Who acts: Mexican lapdog. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 42

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Then one day a favorite rabbit of the Princess's, called Frederick, mysteriously disappeared, and then came a terrible morning when the Mexican lapdog was missing.

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**Who acts:** Mexican lapdog · **What happens:** call, come, be · **To what, where:** favorite rabbit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mexican lapdog), 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:pg23661:4:42
# text = Then one day a favorite rabbit of the Princess's, called Frederick, mysteriously disappeared, and then came a terrible morning when the Mexican lapdog was missing.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	mysteriously	mysteriously	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	29	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle · passive |  | a favorite rabbit of the Princess |  |  | then; day | disappeared *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | then; morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Mexican lapdog |  |  |  |  | missing *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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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