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title: "Why, who must you marry to cure your dragon burns?" asked Sabrinetta. — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Why, who must you marry to cure your dragon burns?" asked Sabrinetta. 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 249

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"Why, who must you marry to cure your dragon burns?" asked Sabrinetta.

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**What happens:** marry, cure, burn, ask · **To what, where:** dragon, Sabrinetta · **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: 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:pg23661:13:249
# text = "Why, who must you marry to cure your dragon burns?" asked Sabrinetta.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	Sabrinetta	Sabrinetta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** *in a quote* | must |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cure** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | your dragon |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer dragon=Source |
| 3 | **burn** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Sabrinetta |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sabrinetta=Recipient |

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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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