--- title: "If what you say is true," she said, "if you are sure that I have a… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: "If what you say is true," she said, "if you are sure that I have a heart of gold, the dragon won't hurt me, and somebody must stay with the pigs." Who acts: you, Dragon, somebody. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/195/) [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 Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/) / 195 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 195 "If what you say is true," she said, "if you are sure that I have a heart of gold, the dragon won't hurt me, and somebody must stay with the pigs." **Who acts:** you, Dragon, somebody · **What happens:** say, be, have, not hurt, stay · **To what, where:** heart, Dragon · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Dragon, somebody), 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:pg23661:13:195 # text = "If what you say is true," she said, "if you are sure that I have a heart of gold, the dragon won't hurt me, and somebody must stay with the pigs." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 nsubj _ _ 35 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dragon | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Dragon | a heart of gold | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 6 | **not** **hurt** *in a quote* | future | the dragon | Dragon | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | | 7 | **stay** *in a quote* | must | somebody | | | | | with the pigs | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with pig=Location | 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 194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/194/) - next →: [sentence 196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/196/) - ↑ back to [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/)