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title: You mend my wing, and then I'll go out and eat up all the town, and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: You mend my wing, and then I'll go out and eat up all the town, and if you make a really smart job of it I'll eat you last. Who acts: You, I, town. 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 68

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You mend my wing, and then I'll go out and eat up all the town, and if you make a really smart job of it I'll eat you last.

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**Who acts:** You, I, town · **What happens:** mend, go out, eat up, make, eat, job · **To what, where:** wing, town, smart job, you

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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, I, town), 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:pg23661:12:68
# text = You mend my wing, and then I'll go out and eat up all the town, and if you make a really smart job of it I'll eat you last.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mend	mend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mend** | present | You | my wing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | future | I |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat up** | infinitive | I *not said here* | all town |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient |
| 4 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a smart job of town |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Product |
| 5 | **eat** | future | I | you |  |  |  | last *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 6 | **job** |  | town |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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