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title: So John said again, very distinctly: "_Here_--_is_--_a_--_nice_--_en… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So John said again, very distinctly: "_Here_--_is_--_a_--_nice_--_end_--_for_--_a_--_respectable_--_blacksmith. Who acts: John. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 50

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So John said again, very distinctly: "\_Here\_--\_is\_--\_a\_--\_nice\_--\_end\_--\_for\_--\_a\_--\_respectable\_--\_blacksmith.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** say · **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 (John), 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:pg23661:12:50
# text = So John said again, very distinctly: "_Here_--_is_--_a_--_nice_--_end_--_for_--_a_--_respectable_--_blacksmith.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | John |  |  |  | again | distinctly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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