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title: Come along--we'll divide up the kingdom tomorrow, and then I shall h… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Come along--we'll divide up the kingdom tomorrow, and then I shall have some money to buy fine clothes to go courting in." Who acts: you, we, I, money. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 124

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Come along--we'll divide up the kingdom tomorrow, and then I shall have some money to buy fine clothes to go courting in."

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**Who acts:** you, we, I, money · **What happens:** come along, divide up, have, buy, go, court · **To what, where:** kingdom, money, fine clothes

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, I, money), 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:pg23661:13:124
# text = Come along--we'll divide up the kingdom tomorrow, and then I shall have some money to buy fine clothes to go courting in."
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	along	along	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	divide	divide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	courting	court	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **divide up** | future | we | the kingdom |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | shall | I | some money |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | some money *not said here* | fine clothes |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | some money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **court** | gerund | some money *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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