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title: The paper said that among the beautiful presents of the bridegroom t… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The paper said that among the beautiful presents of the bridegroom to the bride was an enormous elephant, on which the bridal pair made their wedding tour. Who acts: paper, bridal pair, elephants. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 9

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The paper said that among the beautiful presents of the bridegroom to the bride was an enormous elephant, on which the bridal pair made their wedding tour.

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**Who acts:** paper, bridal pair, elephants · **What happens:** say, be, make, tour · **To what, where:** enormous elephant, wedding tour · **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 (paper, bridal pair, elephants), 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:pg23661:5:9
# text = The paper said that among the beautiful presents of the bridegroom to the bride was an enormous elephant, on which the bridal pair made their wedding tour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the paper |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a enormous elephant |  |  |  | among the beautiful presents of the bridegroom to the bride | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | the bridal pair | elephants's wedding tour |  |  |  | on a enormous elephant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tour=Product |
| 4 | **tour** |  | elephants *= elephant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom tour «act transitive»: poss=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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