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title: This was all very well for Johnnie and Tina; but if you are kind chi… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: This was all very well for Johnnie and Tina; but if you are kind children with feeling hearts you will perhaps feel sorry for the poor deceived, deluded dragon--chained up in the dull dungeon, with nothing to do but to think over the shocking untruths that Johnnie had told him. Who acts: This, you, 
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 267

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This was all very well for Johnnie and Tina; but if you are kind children with feeling hearts you will perhaps feel sorry for the poor deceived, deluded dragon--chained up in the dull dungeon, with nothing to do but to think over the shocking untruths that Johnnie had told him.

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**Who acts:** This, you, poor, Johnnie · **What happens:** be, feel, deceive, delude, chain up, do · **To what, where:** kind children, feeling hearts, dragon, dull dungeon, shocking untruths · **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 (This, you, poor, Johnnie), 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:pg23661:12:267
# text = This was all very well for Johnnie and Tina; but if you are kind children with feeling hearts you will perhaps feel sorry for the poor deceived, deluded dragon--chained up in the dull dungeon, with nothing to do but to think over the shocking untruths that Johnnie had told him.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Tina	Tina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
28	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	deluded	delude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	parataxis	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
47	over	over	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	shocking	shocking	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	untruths	untruth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
51	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
52	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	acl:relcl	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | for Johnnie and Tina; all, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | kind children |  |  |  | with feeling hearts | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | future | you | feeling hearts *not said here* |  |  |  | perhaps, sorry *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 4 | **deceive** | past | the poor |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **delude** | past | the poor *not said here* | dragon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **chain up** | participle | the poor *not said here* |  |  | the dull dungeon |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | the poor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the poor *not said here* |  |  | the shocking untruths |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Johnnie | the shocking untruths *not said here* | Dragon |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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