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title: Tell the giant that I'm just a poor little timid tame dragon that yo… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell the giant that I'm just a poor little timid tame dragon that you kept for a pet." Who acts: you, giant. 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 260

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Tell the giant that I'm just a poor little timid tame dragon that you kept for a pet."

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**Who acts:** you, giant · **What happens:** tell, be, keep · **To what, where:** giant, poor little timid tame dragon · **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 (you, giant), 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:pg23661:12:260
# text = Tell the giant that I'm just a poor little timid tame dragon that you kept for a pet."
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the giant |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the giant | a poor little timid tame dragon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | past | you | a poor little timid tame dragon |  |  |  | for a pet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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