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title: By the time the dragon had been killed they were very hungry and set… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By the time the dragon had been killed they were very hungry and set up a clamour for food. Who acts: parents. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 82

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By the time the dragon had been killed they were very hungry and set up a clamour for food.

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** kill, be, set up · **To what, where:** dragon, clamour

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents), 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:pg3282:4:82
# text = By the time the dragon had been killed they were very hungry and set up a clamour for food.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	clamour	clamour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | the dragon |  |  | time |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set up** | participle | parents *= parent* *not said here* | a clamour |  |  |  | for food | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent clamour=Patient for food=Beneficiary |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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