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title: Just come around here and feel my plates, will you?" — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Just come around here and feel my plates, will you?" Who acts: you. 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 61

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Just come around here and feel my plates, will you?"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** come around, feel · **To what, where:** plates

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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 (you), 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:pg23661:12:61
# text = Just come around here and feel my plates, will you?"
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come around** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  | around *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my plates |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme |

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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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