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title: He says everything is done by machinery now; there must be some way… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He says everything is done by machinery now; there must be some way of settling these dragons. Who acts: Andrew, machinery, way. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 32

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He says everything is done by machinery now; there must be some way of settling these dragons.

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**Who acts:** Andrew, machinery, way · **What happens:** say, do, be, settle · **To what, where:** everything, dragons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Andrew, machinery, way), 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:pg23661:6:32
# text = He says everything is done by machinery now; there must be some way of settling these dragons.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	machinery	machinery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	settling	settle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Andrew |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present · passive | machinery | everything |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **be** | must | some way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **settle** | gerund | some way *not said here* | this dragons |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dragon=Location |

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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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