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title: The County Council undertook to cremate all dragons delivered at the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The County Council undertook to cremate all dragons delivered at their offices between the hours of ten and two, and whole wagonloads and cartloads and truckloads of dead dragons could be seen any day of the week standing in a long line in the street where the County Council had their offices. Who a
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 80

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The County Council undertook to cremate all dragons delivered at their offices between the hours of ten and two, and whole wagonloads and cartloads and truckloads of dead dragons could be seen any day of the week standing in a long line in the street where the County Council had their offices.

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**Who acts:** County Council · **What happens:** undertake, cremate, deliver, see, stand, have · **To what, where:** dragons, offices, whole wagonloads, long line

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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 (County Council), 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:pg23661:5:80
# text = The County Council undertook to cremate all dragons delivered at their offices between the hours of ten and two, and whole wagonloads and cartloads and truckloads of dead dragons could be seen any day of the week standing in a long line in the street where the County Council had their offices.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	County	County	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	cremate	cremate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wagonloads	wagonload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cartloads	cartload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	truckloads	truckload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	51	advmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	County	County	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past | the County Council |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cremate** | to-infinitive | the County Council *not said here* | all dragons |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
| 3 | **deliver** | participle |  | all dragons *not said here* |  | rewards's offices between the hours of ten |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | could · passive |  | whole wagonloads and cartloads and truckloads of dead dragons |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | a long line in the street |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in line=Location |
| 6 | **have** | past | the County Council | rewards's offices |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Patient |

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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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