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title: She swept the rooms and made the breakfast, she washed the dishes an… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: She swept the rooms and made the breakfast, she washed the dishes and she scoured the pans, and all this she did because she was a real Princess. Who acts: Princess, this. 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 7

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She swept the rooms and made the breakfast, she washed the dishes and she scoured the pans, and all this she did because she was a real Princess.

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**Who acts:** Princess, this · **What happens:** sweep, make, wash, scour, do, be · **To what, where:** rooms, breakfast, dishes, pans, real Princess

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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 (Princess, this), 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:pg23661:13:7
# text = She swept the rooms and made the breakfast, she washed the dishes and she scoured the pans, and all this she did because she was a real Princess.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	scoured	scour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pans	pan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **sweep** | past | Princess | the rooms |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | past | Princess *not said here* | the breakfast |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breakfast=Product |
| 3 | **wash** | past | Princess | the dishes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
| 4 | **scour** | past | Princess | the pans |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pan=Source |
| 5 | **do** | past | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | Princess | a real Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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