--- title: And they all got rich without working, which is very wrong; but the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: And they all got rich without working, which is very wrong; but the dragon had never been to school, as you have, so he knew no better. Who acts: people, dragon, you. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/292/) [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/) / 292 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 292 And they all got rich without working, which is very wrong; but the dragon had never been to school, as you have, so he knew no better. **Who acts:** people, dragon, you · **What happens:** get, work, be, have, not be, know · **To what, where:** better 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, 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:pg23661:12:292 # text = And they all got rich without working, which is very wrong; but the dragon had never been to school, as you have, so he knew no better. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 cop _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 30 no no ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | people | | | | | rich *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **work** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | the dragon | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | participle | | | | | | to school | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **know** | past | Dragon | better | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus | 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 291](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/291/) - next →: [sentence 293](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/293/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)