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title: We shouldn't like to risk losing such a dear, pretty pet." — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: We shouldn't like to risk losing such a dear, pretty pet." Who acts: 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 263

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We shouldn't like to risk losing such a dear, pretty pet."

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** not like, risk, lose · **To what, where:** dear pretty pet

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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 (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:pg23661:12:263
# text = We shouldn't like to risk losing such a dear, pretty pet."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	risk	risk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | should | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **risk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | gerund | We *not said here* | such dear pretty pet |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Eventuality |

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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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