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title: My dear, she lived on her income--and that is a thing that a great m… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: My dear, she lived on her income--and that is a thing that a great many people would like to be able to do. Who acts: dragon, that, great many people. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 11, sentence 73

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My dear, she lived on her income--and that is a thing that a great many people would like to be able to do.

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**Who acts:** dragon, that, great many people · **What happens:** live, be, like, do · **To what, where:** income, thing

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, that, great many people), 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:pg23661:11:73
# text = My dear, she lived on her income--and that is a thing that a great many people would like to be able to do.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | dragon |  |  | dragon's income |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on income=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | a thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | would | a great many people | a thing |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a great many people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | a great many people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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