--- title: Then, when all the town children brought their bread and milk, Tina… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Then, when all the town children brought their bread and milk, Tina emptied it into the wash tub, and when the tub was full Tina knocked at the iron door with the grating in it and said: "May we come in?" Who acts: town children, bread, tub, Tina. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/226/) [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/) / 226 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 226 Then, when all the town children brought their bread and milk, Tina emptied it into the wash tub, and when the tub was full Tina knocked at the iron door with the grating in it and said: "May we come in?" **Who acts:** town children, bread, tub, Tina, we · **What happens:** bring, empty, be, knock, say, come in · **To what, where:** milk, wash tub · **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 (town children, bread, tub, Tina), 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:pg23661:12:226 # text = Then, when all the town children brought their bread and milk, Tina emptied it into the wash tub, and when the tub was full Tina knocked at the iron door with the grating in it and said: "May we come in?" 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 7 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Tina Tina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 emptied empty VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 wash wash NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 tub tub NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 tub tub NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ _ 28 Tina Tina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 iron iron ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 grating grating NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 May may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ _ 46 in in ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | all town children | | | | then | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **empty** | past | children's bread and milk | milk | | the wash tub | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into tub=Destination | | 3 | **is** | past | the tub | | | | | full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **knock** | past | Tina | | | | | with the grating; in tub; at the iron door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient with grating=Instrument | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Tina *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **come in** *in a quote* | may | we | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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 225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/225/) - next →: [sentence 227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/227/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)