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title: He was a kindhearted boy, as you have guessed, and he was glad to th… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a kindhearted boy, as you have guessed, and he was glad to think that dragon and drakling would now have plenty to eat of their favorite food, forever and ever. Who acts: Germany, you, dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and 
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 223

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He was a kindhearted boy, as you have guessed, and he was glad to think that dragon and drakling would now have plenty to eat of their favorite food, forever and ever.

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**Who acts:** Germany, you, dragon · **What happens:** be, guess, think, have, eat · **To what, where:** kindhearted boy, plenty · **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 (Germany, 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:pg23661:14:223
# text = He was a kindhearted boy, as you have guessed, and he was glad to think that dragon and drakling would now have plenty to eat of their favorite food, forever and ever.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	kindhearted	kindhearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	drakling	drakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
25	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | past | Germany | a kindhearted boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **guess** | present · perfect | you | a kindhearted boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Germany |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Germany *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | would | dragon and drakling | plenty |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | dragon and drakling *not said here* | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  | of dragons's favorite food; forever *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of food=Source |

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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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