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title: He had barked ever since the dragon came to the island, and people h… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He had barked ever since the dragon came to the island, and people had grown quite used to the noise. Who acts: Frederick, dragon, people. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 43

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He had barked ever since the dragon came to the island, and people had grown quite used to the noise.

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**Who acts:** Frederick, dragon, people · **What happens:** bark, come, grow, use · **To what, where:** island

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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 (Frederick, dragon, people), 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:pg23661:4:43
# text = He had barked ever since the dragon came to the island, and people had grown quite used to the noise.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	barked	bark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
5	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | past · perfect | Frederick |  |  |  | ever |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the dragon |  |  | the island |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **grow** | past · perfect | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the noise | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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