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title: But when he began to sing "Hush-a-by, Dragon," the baby screamed mor… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he began to sing "Hush-a-by, Dragon," the baby screamed more and more and more. " Who acts: peace, baby. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 149

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But when he began to sing "Hush-a-by, Dragon," the baby screamed more and more and more. "

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**Who acts:** peace, baby · **What happens:** begin, sing, scream · **To what, where:** Dragon, Hush

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peace, baby), 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:pg23661:12:149
# text = But when he began to sing "Hush-a-by, Dragon," the baby screamed more and more and more. "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Hush	Hush	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | peace | Dragon |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | peace *not said here* | Hush |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hush=Theme |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | the baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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