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title: "Why, you've only got a kingdom (and a dragon), but I've got clean h… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Why, you've only got a kingdom (and a dragon), but I've got clean hands (and five and seventy fine black pigs)." Who acts: you, Elfin. 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 135

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"Why, you've only got a kingdom (and a dragon), but I've got clean hands (and five and seventy fine black pigs)."

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**Who acts:** you, Elfin · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** kingdom, clean hands

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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, Elfin), 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:pg23661:13:135
# text = "Why, you've only got a kingdom (and a dragon), but I've got clean hands (and five and seventy fine black pigs)."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
20	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
27	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | a kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kingdom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Elfin | clean hands |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus |

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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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