--- title: And then they went away and told the people what they had done, and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: And then they went away and told the people what they had done, and Johnnie was made mayor, and had a glorious feast exactly as he had said he would--with nothing in it but sweet things. Who acts: basins, Johnnie. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/265/) [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/) / 265 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 265 And then they went away and told the people what they had done, and Johnnie was made mayor, and had a glorious feast exactly as he had said he would--with nothing in it but sweet things. **Who acts:** basins, Johnnie · **What happens:** go away, tell, do, make, have, say · **To what, where:** people, Johnnie, glorious feast · **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 (basins, Johnnie), 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:pg23661:12:265 # text = And then they went away and told the people what they had done, and Johnnie was made mayor, and had a glorious feast exactly as he had said he would--with nothing in it but sweet things. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 iobj _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 Johnnie Johnnie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 ccomp _ _ 19 mayor mayor NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 glorious glorious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 32 appos _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go away** | past | basins *= basin* | | | | then | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | basins *= basin* *not said here* | | the people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | past · perfect | basins *= basin* | the people | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **make** | past · passive | | Johnnie | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mayor=Product | | 5 | **have** | past | basins *= basin* *not said here* | a glorious feast | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Johnnie | | | | | exactly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 264](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/264/) - next →: [sentence 266](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/266/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)