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title: "I beg your pardon," said the drakling humbly, "but I am really _ver… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "I beg your pardon," said the drakling humbly, "but I am really _very_ hungry." Who acts: drakling, your. 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 172

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"I beg your pardon," said the drakling humbly, "but I am really \_very\_ hungry."

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**Who acts:** drakling, your · **What happens:** beg, say, be, pardon · **To what, where:** pardon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (drakling, your), 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:pg23661:14:172
# text = "I beg your pardon," said the drakling humbly, "but I am really _very_ hungry."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
21	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | the drakling *= drakling* | your pardon |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the drakling |  |  |  |  | humbly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the drakling *= drakling* |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pardon** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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