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title: Nurse was there, and tea was ready: seedy cake and plummy cake, and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Nurse was there, and tea was ready: seedy cake and plummy cake, and jam and hot buttered toast, and the prettiest china with red and gold and blue flowers on it, and real tea, and as many cups of it as you liked. Who acts: Nurse, tea, you. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, p
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 108

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Nurse was there, and tea was ready: seedy cake and plummy cake, and jam and hot buttered toast, and the prettiest china with red and gold and blue flowers on it, and real tea, and as many cups of it as you liked.

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**Who acts:** Nurse, tea, you · **What happens:** be, butter, like

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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 (Nurse, tea, you), 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:pg23661:1:108
# text = Nurse was there, and tea was ready: seedy cake and plummy cake, and jam and hot buttered toast, and the prettiest china with red and gold and blue flowers on it, and real tea, and as many cups of it as you liked.
1	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	seedy	seedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	plummy	plummy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	buttered	butter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	gold	gold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Nurse |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | tea |  |  |  |  | seedy cake and plummy cake and jam and hot buttered toast and the prettiest china with red flowers on Minister and real tea and many cups of Minister *obl*; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **butter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **like** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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