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title: "Now," said the witch, when they had all cried as much as was good f… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Now," said the witch, when they had all cried as much as was good for them, "I can do one or two other little things for you. Who acts: witch, I. 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 35

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"Now," said the witch, when they had all cried as much as was good for them, "I can do one or two other little things for you.

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**Who acts:** witch, I · **What happens:** say, cry, be, do · **To what, where:** birth, one other little things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (witch, I), 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:pg23661:10:35
# text = "Now," said the witch, when they had all cried as much as was good for them, "I can do one or two other little things for you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the witch |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · perfect · passive |  | birth |  |  |  | much *obl*; all *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for birth; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | can | I | one other little things |  |  |  | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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