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title: After saving up all these years to get his crown, and everything!" — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: After saving up all these years to get his crown, and everything!" Who acts: Dragon. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 15

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After saving up all these years to get his crown, and everything!"

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**Who acts:** Dragon · **What happens:** save up, get, crown · **To what, where:** everything, crown

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg23661:2:15
# text = After saving up all these years to get his crown, and everything!"
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save up** | gerund |  | everything |  |  | year |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | Dragon's crown |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus |
| 3 | **crown** |  | Dragon |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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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