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title: "It must be seventy-seven--and I really can't die for him, so nothin… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "It must be seventy-seven--and I really can't die for him, so nothing can be done," said the nurse, sadly. " Who acts: seventy six, nurse. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 244

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"It must be seventy-seven--and I really can't die for him, so nothing can be done," said the nurse, sadly. "

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**Who acts:** seventy six, nurse · **What happens:** be, not die, do, say · **To what, where:** seventy seven, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (seventy six, nurse), 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:pg23661:13:244
# text = "It must be seventy-seven--and I really can't die for him, so nothing can be done," said the nurse, sadly. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	seventy	seventy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | seventy six *= six* | seventy seven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **die** *in a quote* | can | the nurse *= nurse* |  |  |  |  | for man | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the nurse |  |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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