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title: And all the class said the same, for they had more sense than to arg… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the class said the same, for they had more sense than to argue with a person who carried a cane. Who acts: class, Edmund, more sense, person. 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 236

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And all the class said the same, for they had more sense than to argue with a person who carried a cane.

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**Who acts:** class, Edmund, more sense, person · **What happens:** say, have, argue, carry · **To what, where:** same, more sense, cane · **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 (class, Edmund, more sense, person), 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:pg23661:14:236
# text = And all the class said the same, for they had more sense than to argue with a person who carried a cane.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all class | the same |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent same=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | Edmund | more sense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | more sense *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a person | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with person=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **carry** | past | a person | a cane |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=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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