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title: And then the master caned Edmund again, explaining that this time it… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And then the master caned Edmund again, explaining that this time it was not for untruthfulness, but for his vexatious argumentative habits. Who acts: master, shock. 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 241

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And then the master caned Edmund again, explaining that this time it was not for untruthfulness, but for his vexatious argumentative habits.

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**Who acts:** master, shock · **What happens:** cane, explain, not be · **To what, where:** Edmund, time

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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 (master, shock), 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:pg23661:14:241
# text = And then the master caned Edmund again, explaining that this time it was not for untruthfulness, but for his vexatious argumentative habits.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	caned	cane	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	untruthfulness	untruthfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	vexatious	vexatious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	argumentative	argumentative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cane** | past | the master | Edmund |  |  | then; again | for hillside's vexatious argumentative habits | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edmund=Patient |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | the master *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | shock | this time *not said here* |  |  |  | for untruthfulness | tree rules |

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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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