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title: Historical fiction novels set in Prague include The Discovery of Wit… — Prague · tree and pragmatics
description: Historical fiction novels set in Prague include The Discovery of Witches, Shadows of Night by Deborah Harkness and Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets. Who acts: Historical fiction novels. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Prague» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Prague, sentence 285

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From Wikipedia, [«Prague»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Historical fiction novels set in Prague include The Discovery of Witches, Shadows of Night by Deborah Harkness and Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets.

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**Who acts:** Historical fiction novels · **What happens:** set, include, shadow · **To what, where:** Witches, Prague, Night

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Prague». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Historical fiction novels), 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 article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Prague:285
# text = Historical fiction novels set in Prague include The Discovery of Witches, Shadows of Night by Deborah Harkness and Dan Brown's The Secret of Secrets.
1	Historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	fiction	fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	novels	novel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Prague	Prague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Discovery	Discovery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Deborah	Deborah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	Harkness	Harkness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Dan	Dan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present | Historical fiction novels |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | present | Historical fiction novels *not said here* | Witches  the Discovery and Shadows of Night and the Secret of Secrets |  |  |  | in Prague *goal*; by Deborah and Dan | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent witch=Theme in prague=Goal |
| 3 | **shadow** |  |  | Night |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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 English Wikipedia, «Prague», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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