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title: "Mad?" asked Lionel, cheerfully. — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mad?" asked Lionel, cheerfully. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 127

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"Mad?" asked Lionel, cheerfully.

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**What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** Lionel

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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: 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:pg23661:1:127
# text = "Mad?" asked Lionel, cheerfully.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Lionel |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent lionel=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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