--- title: "If I were you," said his friend, stretching itself out in the pool… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: "If I were you," said his friend, stretching itself out in the pool of flame so that the waves covered him up to his chin, "I should find the drakling and bring it here." Who acts: friend, waves. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/129/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/) / 129 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 129 "If I were you," said his friend, stretching itself out in the pool of flame so that the waves covered him up to his chin, "I should find the drakling and bring it here." **Who acts:** friend, waves · **What happens:** be, say, stretch out, cover up, find, bring · **To what, where:** you, patience, do, drakling · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, waves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:14:129 # text = "If I were you," said his friend, stretching itself out in the pool of flame so that the waves covered him up to his chin, "I should find the drakling and bring it here." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 obj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 24 mark _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 drakling drakling NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | do's friend *= friend* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | do's friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stretch out** | gerund | do's friend *not said here* | patience | | | | in the pool of flame | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Patient in pool=Topic | | 4 | **cover up** | past | the waves | | do | | | to do's chin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | should | do's friend *= friend* | the drakling | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drakling=Topic | | 6 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | do's friend *= friend* *not said here* | patience | | here | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/128/) - next →: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/130/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)