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title: There's one other charm that cures dragon burns, though; but I'd rat… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: There's one other charm that cures dragon burns, though; but I'd rather be burnt black all over than marry anyone but you, my dear, my pretty." Who acts: one other charm. 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 248

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There's one other charm that cures dragon burns, though; but I'd rather be burnt black all over than marry anyone but you, my dear, my pretty."

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**Who acts:** one other charm · **What happens:** be, cure, burnt, marry · **To what, where:** dragon burns, I, anyone

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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 (one other charm), 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:pg23661:13:248
# text = There's one other charm that cures dragon burns, though; but I'd rather be burnt black all over than marry anyone but you, my dear, my pretty."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cures	cure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	burns	burn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	though	though	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
19	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	pretty	pretty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | one other charm |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cure** | present | one other charm | dragon burns |  |  |  | though *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer burn=Source |
| 3 | **burnt** | would · passive |  | I |  |  |  | my pretty *obl*; black, over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | infinitive |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |

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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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