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title: The _Rotundia Times_ called the married couple "the happy pair." — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Rotundia Times_ called the married couple "the happy pair." Who acts: Rotundia Times. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 12

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The \_Rotundia Times\_ called the married couple "the happy pair."

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**Who acts:** Rotundia Times · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** married couple · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rotundia Times), 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:pg23661:5:12
# text = The _Rotundia Times_ called the married couple "the happy pair."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Rotundia	Rotundia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Times	Times	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | the Rotundia Times *not said here* | the married couple and the happy pair |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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