--- title: "It's all very well," said the dragon, "but how do I know you'd unti… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: "It's all very well," said the dragon, "but how do I know you'd untie me again when you'd riveted me? Who acts: horse, 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/pg23661/12/83/) [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/) / 83 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 83 "It's all very well," said the dragon, "but how do I know you'd untie me again when you'd riveted me? **Who acts:** horse, dragon, you · **What happens:** be, say, know, untie, rivet · **To what, where:** dragon · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (horse, 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:pg23661:12:83 # text = "It's all very well," said the dragon, "but how do I know you'd untie me again when you'd riveted me? 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 untie untie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 riveted rivet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | horse | | | | | all, well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the dragon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the dragon *= dragon* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **untie** *in a quote* | would | you | the dragon *= dragon* | | | again | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 5 | **rivet** *in a quote* | past · perfect | you | the dragon *= dragon* | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/84/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)