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title: But I never thought my dear pigs loved me so much as all this, and m… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But I never thought my dear pigs loved me so much as all this, and my dear too--and, of course, that only makes it more impossible. Who acts: I, dear pigs, that. 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 247

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But I never thought my dear pigs loved me so much as all this, and my dear too--and, of course, that only makes it more impossible.

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**Who acts:** I, dear pigs, that · **What happens:** not think, love, make · **To what, where:** me, course · **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 (I, dear pigs, that), 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:pg23661:13:247
# text = But I never thought my dear pigs loved me so much as all this, and my dear too--and, of course, that only makes it more impossible.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	28	advmod	_	_
24	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | past | my dear pigs | me |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | present | that | course |  |  |  | impossible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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