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title: And some people would have been afraid to trust him, but Johnnie and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And some people would have been afraid to trust him, but Johnnie and Tina were so happy on their wedding day that they could not believe any harm of anyone in the world. Who acts: people, Johnnie. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 281

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And some people would have been afraid to trust him, but Johnnie and Tina were so happy on their wedding day that they could not believe any harm of anyone in the world.

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**Who acts:** people, Johnnie · **What happens:** be, trust, not believe, harm · **To what, where:** Dragon, harm, anyone

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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 (people, 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:pg23661:12:281
# text = And some people would have been afraid to trust him, but Johnnie and Tina were so happy on their wedding day that they could not believe any harm of anyone in the world.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	Johnnie	Johnnie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Tina	Tina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | some people |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trust** | to-infinitive | some people *not said here* | Dragon |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Johnnie and Tina |  |  |  | day | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **believe** | could | people | any harm of anyone |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus |
| 5 | **harm** |  |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | nom harm «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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