--- title: And the third expressed the pride and joy of the poet in being permi… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: And the third expressed the pride and joy of the poet in being permitted to sing such deeds, beside which the actions of St. George must appear quite commonplace to all with a feeling heart or a well-balanced brain. Who acts: third, actions, George. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/163/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/) / 163 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 163 And the third expressed the pride and joy of the poet in being permitted to sing such deeds, beside which the actions of St. George must appear quite commonplace to all with a feeling heart or a well-balanced brain. **Who acts:** third, actions, George · **What happens:** express, permit, sing, appear, balance, pride · **To what, where:** pride, such deeds, commonplace, poet 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 (third, actions, George), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:12:163 # text = And the third expressed the pride and joy of the poet in being permitted to sing such deeds, beside which the actions of St. George must appear quite commonplace to all with a feeling heart or a well-balanced brain. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 expressed express VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 poet poet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 in in SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 permitted permit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 beside beside ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:desc _ _ 26 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 29 quite quite ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 commonplace commonplace NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 39 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 balanced balance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **express** | past | the third | the pride of the poet and joy | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Theme | | 2 | **permit** | gerund · passive | the third *not said here* | | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the third *not said here* | such deeds | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location deed=Theme | | 4 | **appear** | must | the actions of George St. | commonplace | | | | to all; with a feeling heart or a balanced brain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside which=Location | | 5 | **balance** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pride** | | | the poet | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **act** | | George St. | | | | | | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/162/) - next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/164/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)