--- title: And the next time the tourists came, and Johnnie let off the colored… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: And the next time the tourists came, and Johnnie let off the colored fire, the dragon said shyly: "Excuse my troubling you, but could you bring me a little more bread and milk?" Who acts: tourists, Johnnie, dragon, you. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/272/) [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/) / 272 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 272 And the next time the tourists came, and Johnnie let off the colored fire, the dragon said shyly: "Excuse my troubling you, but could you bring me a little more bread and milk?" **Who acts:** tourists, Johnnie, dragon, you · **What happens:** come, let off, color, say, excuse, bring · **To what, where:** colored fire, troubling, little more bread, dragon · **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 (tourists, Johnnie, dragon, you), 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:pg23661:12:272 # text = And the next time the tourists came, and Johnnie let off the colored fire, the dragon said shyly: "Excuse my troubling you, but could you bring me a little more bread and milk?" 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tourists tourist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 Johnnie Johnnie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 colored color VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 shyly shyly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 troubling troubling NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 36 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the tourists | | | | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **let off** | past | Johnnie | the colored fire | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 3 | **color** | participle | | | | | | | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the dragon | | | | | shyly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my troubling | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bring** *in a quote* | could | you | little more bread and milk | the dragon *= dragon* | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bread=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 271](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/271/) - next →: [sentence 273](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/273/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)