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title: "Noble preserver," cried the mayor, "we will get up a subscription f… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Noble preserver," cried the mayor, "we will get up a subscription for you, and crown you in public with a laurel wreath." Who acts: Noble preserver, we. 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 158

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"Noble preserver," cried the mayor, "we will get up a subscription for you, and crown you in public with a laurel wreath."

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**Who acts:** Noble preserver, we · **What happens:** cry, get up, crown · **To what, where:** mayor, subscription, you, public · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Noble preserver, we), 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:pg23661:12:158
# text = "Noble preserver," cried the mayor, "we will get up a subscription for you, and crown you in public with a laurel wreath."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	preserver	preserver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	subscription	subscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	crown	crown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Noble preserver | the mayor |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mayor=Topic |
| 2 | **get up** *in a quote* | future | we | a subscription |  |  |  | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subscription=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **crown** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* |  | you | public |  | with a laurel wreath | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Destination with wreath=Theme |

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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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