--- title: "Then bring it here," said the dragon, "and I'll take care of it til… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: "Then bring it here," said the dragon, "and I'll take care of it till you've done riveting me, and you shall tie me up." Who acts: 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/pg23661/12/97/) [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/) / 97 # The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 97 "Then bring it here," said the dragon, "and I'll take care of it till you've done riveting me, and you shall tie me up." **Who acts:** dragon, you · **What happens:** bring, say, take, do, rivet, tie up · **To what, where:** bit, care, 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 (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:pg23661:12:97 # text = "Then bring it here," said the dragon, "and I'll take care of it till you've done riveting me, and you shall tie me up." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 till till SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 24 riveting rivet VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 tie tie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | | bit | | here | then | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the dragon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | future | the dragon *= dragon* | care | | | | of care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rivet** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the dragon *= dragon* | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 6 | **tie up** *in a quote* | shall | you | the dragon *= dragon* | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/98/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon Tamers\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/12/)