--- title: Of course, it's quite safe for me, in my dragonproof tower; but if i… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Of course, it's quite safe for me, in my dragonproof tower; but if it is a dragon, it's quite big enough to eat people, and today's the first of May, and the children go out to get flowers in the wood." Who acts: thing, it, children. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/20/) [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/) / 20 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 20 Of course, it's quite safe for me, in my dragonproof tower; but if it is a dragon, it's quite big enough to eat people, and today's the first of May, and the children go out to get flowers in the wood." **Who acts:** thing, it, children · **What happens:** be, eat, go out, get · **To what, where:** dragon, people, today first, flowers, wood 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 (thing, it, children), 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:pg23661:13:20 # text = Of course, it's quite safe for me, in my dragonproof tower; but if it is a dragon, it's quite big enough to eat people, and today's the first of May, and the children go out to get flowers in the wood." 1 Of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 quite quite ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 dragonproof dragonproof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 quite quite ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 27 enough enough ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 first first NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 44 out out ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 47 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | thing | | | | | for me; safe *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thing | a dragon | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | it | | | | | big, enough *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | thing *not said here* | the today first | | | may | | tree rules | | 6 | **go out** | present | the children | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* | flowers | | the wood | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/21/) - ↑ back to [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/)