--- title: It is all for their own good_ on the black-board for Edmund to copy… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: It is all for their own good_ on the black-board for Edmund to copy out seven hundred times, Edmund sneaked out of school and ran for his life across the town to warn his granny, but she was not at home. Who acts: Lying, Edmund, granny. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little E --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/) / 98 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 98 It is all for their own good\_ on the black-board for Edmund to copy out seven hundred times, Edmund sneaked out of school and ran for his life across the town to warn his granny, but she was not at home. **Who acts:** Lying, Edmund, granny · **What happens:** be, copy out, sneak out, run, warn, not be · **To what, where:** black board, school, town, granny, home 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 (Lying, Edmund, granny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:14:98 # text = It is all for their own good_ on the black-board for Edmund to copy out seven hundred times, Edmund sneaked out of school and ran for his life across the town to warn his granny, but she was not at home. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 all all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 _ _ NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Edmund Edmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 compound _ _ 20 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 Edmund Edmund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sneaked sneak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 across across ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 granny granny NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Lying | | | the black board for Edmund | | for liars's own good \_ but home; all *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **copy out** | to-infinitive | | | | | time | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sneak out** | past | Edmund | school | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Agent | | 4 | **run** | past | Edmund *not said here* | | | the town | | for shower's life | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across town=Trajectory | | 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | Edmund *not said here* | | shower's granny | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent granny=Recipient | | 6 | **not** **is** | past | granny | | | home | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/99/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)