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title: You can employ yourself in embroidering your wedding gown. — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: You can employ yourself in embroidering your wedding gown. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 22

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You can employ yourself in embroidering your wedding gown.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** employ, embroider · **To what, where:** yourself, wedding gown

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg23661:10:22
# text = You can employ yourself in embroidering your wedding gown.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	embroidering	embroider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | can | You | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 2 | **embroider** | gerund | You *not said here* | your wedding gown |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Product |

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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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