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title: They saw the carts delivering the dead dragons at the County Council… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: They saw the carts delivering the dead dragons at the County Council offices, and they saw St. George asleep under the dragonproof veil. Who acts: taps, carts. 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 91

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They saw the carts delivering the dead dragons at the County Council offices, and they saw St. George asleep under the dragonproof veil.

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**Who acts:** taps, carts · **What happens:** see, deliver · **To what, where:** carts, dead dragons, Council offices, George

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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 (taps, carts), 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:pg23661:6:91
# text = They saw the carts delivering the dead dragons at the County Council offices, and they saw St. George asleep under the dragonproof veil.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	delivering	deliver	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	County	County	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	dragonproof	dragonproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | taps *= tap* | the carts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cart=Stimulus |
| 2 | **deliver** | gerund | the carts *not said here* | the dead dragons |  | the Council offices |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | taps *= tap* | George  St. |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer george=Stimulus |

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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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