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title: Without so much as entering the hermitage, the dragon-king fled. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Without so much as entering the hermitage, the dragon-king fled. Who acts: much, dragon king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 125

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Without so much as entering the hermitage, the dragon-king fled.

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**Who acts:** much, dragon king · **What happens:** enter, flee · **To what, where:** hermitage

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, dragon king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:11:133
# text = Without so much as entering the hermitage, the dragon-king fled.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund | much | the hermitage |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hermitage=Destination |
| 2 | **flee** | past | the dragon king |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (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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