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title: So Elfin sat down again by his fire, and the Prince went home and to… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So Elfin sat down again by his fire, and the Prince went home and told his Parliament how clever and brave he had been, and though he woke them up on purpose to tell them, they were not angry, but said: "You are indeed brave and clever." Who acts: Elfin, Prince, hands, You. A sentence of «The Book o
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 136

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So Elfin sat down again by his fire, and the Prince went home and told his Parliament how clever and brave he had been, and though he woke them up on purpose to tell them, they were not angry, but said: "You are indeed brave and clever."

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**Who acts:** Elfin, Prince, hands, You · **What happens:** sit down, go, tell, be, wake up, not be · **To what, where:** Parliament, hands, purpose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Elfin, Prince, hands, You), 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:pg23661:13:136
# text = So Elfin sat down again by his fire, and the Prince went home and told his Parliament how clever and brave he had been, and though he woke them up on purpose to tell them, they were not angry, but said: "You are indeed brave and clever."
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	ccomp	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | Elfin |  |  |  | again | by Elfin's fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Elfin *not said here* |  | Prince's Parliament |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent parliament=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** | past · perfect | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wake up** | past | Prince | hands *= hand* |  | purpose |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  | hands *= hand* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 7 | **not** **is** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Elfin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | brave, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **be** *in a quote* |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **fire** |  | Elfin |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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