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title: But there is no deliverance, so never steer that way; and think no m… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But there is no deliverance, so never steer that way; and think no more of the Princess, for that is only an idle tale. Who acts: deliverance, that. 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 62

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But there is no deliverance, so never steer that way; and think no more of the Princess, for that is only an idle tale.

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**Who acts:** deliverance, that · **What happens:** be, not steer, think · **To what, where:** way, more

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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 (deliverance, that), 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:pg23661:10:62
# text = But there is no deliverance, so never steer that way; and think no more of the Princess, for that is only an idle tale.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	steer	steer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no deliverance |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **steer** | infinitive | no deliverance *not said here* | that way |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | no deliverance *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | for a idle tale | tree rules |

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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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