--- title: "I wouldn't for a kingdom," cried Elfin, stroking the pig as best he… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: "I wouldn't for a kingdom," cried Elfin, stroking the pig as best he could with his elbow. Who acts: kingdom. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/233/) [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/) / 233 # The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 233 "I wouldn't for a kingdom," cried Elfin, stroking the pig as best he could with his elbow. **Who acts:** kingdom · **What happens:** cry, stroke · **To what, where:** pig 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 (kingdom), 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:pg23661:13:233 # text = "I wouldn't for a kingdom," cried Elfin, stroking the pig as best he could with his elbow. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Elfin Elfin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 stroking stroke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 obl _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a kingdom | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stroke** | gerund | a kingdom *not said here* | the pig | | | | as best | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Experiencer | 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 232](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/232/) - next →: [sentence 234](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/234/) - ↑ back to [The Fiery Dragon\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/13/)