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title: And there she was, in the street, and on the other side of the way t… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And there she was, in the street, and on the other side of the way the dragon was sitting whining, but he did not try to eat her, because--though the old nurse did not know it--dragons cannot eat white Princesses with hearts of gold. Who acts: dragon, Prince, old nurse, dragons. A sentence of «The B
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 158

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And there she was, in the street, and on the other side of the way the dragon was sitting whining, but he did not try to eat her, because--though the old nurse did not know it--dragons cannot eat white Princesses with hearts of gold.

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**Who acts:** dragon, Prince, old nurse, dragons · **What happens:** sit, not be, eat, not know, not eat · **To what, where:** whining, Princess, white Princesses

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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 (dragon, Prince, old nurse, dragons), 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:pg23661:13:158
# text = And there she was, in the street, and on the other side of the way the dragon was sitting whining, but he did not try to eat her, because--though the old nurse did not know it--dragons cannot eat white Princesses with hearts of gold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	whining	whining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
39	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
45	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
48	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the dragon | whining |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whining=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past · do-support | Prince |  |  |  |  | try *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | the old nurse | whining |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **eat** | can | dragons | white Princesses |  |  |  | with hearts of gold | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |

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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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