--- title: "But hadn't my great-great-however-much-it-is-grandfather a crown?" — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: "But hadn't my great-great-however-much-it-is-grandfather a crown?" Who acts: crown. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/102/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/) / 102 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 102 "But hadn't my great-great-however-much-it-is-grandfather a crown?" **Who acts:** crown · **What happens:** not have, be · **To what, where:** crown, great much grandfather This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crown), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:1:102 # text = "But hadn't my great-great-however-much-it-is-grandfather a crown?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 however however ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 grandfather grandfather NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past | | a crown | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | crown | my great much grandfather | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/103/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/)