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title: And he said to his Nurse: "People will love me now I've made such a… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said to his Nurse: "People will love me now I've made such a lot of pretty new laws for them." Who acts: Lionel, People. 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 9

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And he said to his Nurse: "People will love me now I've made such a lot of pretty new laws for them."

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**Who acts:** Lionel, People · **What happens:** say, love, make · **To what, where:** Nurse, Lionel, lot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lionel, People), 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:pg23661:2:9
# text = And he said to his Nurse: "People will love me now I've made such a lot of pretty new laws for them."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lionel |  | Lionel's Nurse |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to nurse=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* | future | People | Lionel |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Lionel | such lot of new laws for laws |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product |

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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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