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title: When Sabrinetta had done the housework (she did not leave so much as… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: When Sabrinetta had done the housework (she did not leave so much as a speck of dust anywhere, even in the corneriest corner of the winding stair) she put on her milk white, silky gown with the moon-daisies worked on it, and went up to the top of her tower again. Who acts: Sabrinetta, Dragon, silky 
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 21

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When Sabrinetta had done the housework (she did not leave so much as a speck of dust anywhere, even in the corneriest corner of the winding stair) she put on her milk white, silky gown with the moon-daisies worked on it, and went up to the top of her tower again.

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**Who acts:** Sabrinetta, Dragon, silky gown · **What happens:** do, not leave, wind, put, work, go up · **To what, where:** housework, much, corneriest corner, milk

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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 (Sabrinetta, Dragon, silky gown), 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:pg23661:13:21
# text = When Sabrinetta had done the housework (she did not leave so much as a speck of dust anywhere, even in the corneriest corner of the winding stair) she put on her milk white, silky gown with the moon-daisies worked on it, and went up to the top of her tower again.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Sabrinetta	Sabrinetta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	housework	housework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	speck	speck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	corneriest	cornery	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	stair	stair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	silky	silky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	daisies	daisy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
45	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
51	up	up	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	again	again	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Sabrinetta | the housework |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housework=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | past · do-support | Dragon | much |  | the corneriest corner of the winding stair and silky gown |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent much=Theme in corner=Location |
| 3 | **wind** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past | Dragon |  |  | Dragon's milk |  | white *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on milk=Destination |
| 5 | **work** | past | silky gown *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the moon daisies; on thing | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with daisy=Co-Agent on it=Theme |
| 6 | **go up** | past | silky gown *not said here* |  |  |  | again | to the top of Dragon's tower | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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