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title: Opening, part 2 — The Book of Dragons · full text with trees · page 2
description: Opening, part 2, «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "You are a naughty little King," she said, "and nobody will love you."
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# Opening, part 2 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/101/) — I do not care for public life," he said.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/102/) — Of course he knew his way onto his own page, so there was no danger of his opening the book at the wrong page and letting out a Dragon or anything.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/103/) — So he got back into his picture and has never come out since: That is why you will never see a Manticora as long as you live, except in a picture-book.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/104/) — And of course he left the kitties outside, because there was no room for them in the book--and the milk cans too. — checked by a teacher
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/105/) — Then the Rocking Horse begged to be allowed to go and live on the Hippogriff's page of the book. "
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/106/) — I should like," he said, "to live somewhere where Dragons can't get at me."
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/107/) — So the beautiful, white-winged Hippogriff showed him the way in, and there he stayed till the King had him taken out for his great-great-great-great-grandchildren to play with.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/108/) — As for the Hippogriff, he accepted the position of the King's Own Rocking Horse--a situation left vacant by the retirement of the wooden one.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/2/109/) — And the Blue Bird and the Butterfly sing and flutter among the lilies and roses of the Palace garden to this very day.

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