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title: Now this was exactly the right way to manage Edmund, only no one had… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this was exactly the right way to manage Edmund, only no one had ever thought of trying to do it before. Who acts: this. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 138

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Now this was exactly the right way to manage Edmund, only no one had ever thought of trying to do it before.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** be, manage, think, try, do · **To what, where:** right way, Edmund, one, way

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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 (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:pg23661:14:138
# text = Now this was exactly the right way to manage Edmund, only no one had ever thought of trying to do it before.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this | the right way |  |  | now | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **manage** | to-infinitive |  | Edmund |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edmund=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | no one |  |  | ever |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | way |  |  |  | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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