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title: "Oh, well," said Elfin, "do as you like about it--the dragon will co… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh, well," said Elfin, "do as you like about it--the dragon will come and hunt you tomorrow, as likely as not. Who acts: Elfin, you, dragon. 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 95

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"Oh, well," said Elfin, "do as you like about it--the dragon will come and hunt you tomorrow, as likely as not.

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**Who acts:** Elfin, you, dragon · **What happens:** say, do, like, come, hunt · **To what, where:** you · **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 (Elfin, you, dragon), 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:pg23661:13:95
# text = "Oh, well," said Elfin, "do as you like about it--the dragon will come and hunt you tomorrow, as likely as not.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Elfin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | about hunt | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | future | the dragon |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hunt** *in a quote* | infinitive | the dragon *not said here* | you |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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