--- title: So Johnnie said, "Done," and off he went, hand in hand with Tina, an… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: So Johnnie said, "Done," and off he went, hand in hand with Tina, and they called on all their little friends and said: "Will you help us to save the town?" Who acts: Johnnie, people, you, us. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/217/) [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/) / 217 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 217 So Johnnie said, "Done," and off he went, hand in hand with Tina, and they called on all their little friends and said: "Will you help us to save the town?" **Who acts:** Johnnie, people, you, us · **What happens:** say, do, go, call, help, save · **To what, where:** hand, us, town · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Johnnie, people, you, us), 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:pg23661:12:217 # text = So Johnnie said, "Done," and off he went, hand in hand with Tina, and they called on all their little friends and said: "Will you help us to save the town?" 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Johnnie Johnnie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 off off ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Tina Tina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 35 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Johnnie | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | Johnnie | hand | | hand | | with Tina; off *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with tina=Beneficiary | | 4 | **call** | past | people | | | | | on people's little friends | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Johnnie *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **help** *in a quote* | future | you | us | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 7 | **save** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | the town | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | 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. 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