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title: She was always kind and polite, even to her Uncle James and to other… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: She was always kind and polite, even to her Uncle James and to other people whom she did not like very much; and though she was not very clever, for a Princess, she always tried to do her lessons. Who acts: gardener. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3, with its depende
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 13

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She was always kind and polite, even to her Uncle James and to other people whom she did not like very much; and though she was not very clever, for a Princess, she always tried to do her lessons.

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**Who acts:** gardener · **What happens:** be, not like, not be, try, do · **To what, where:** other people, lessons

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener), 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:pg23661:3:13
# text = She was always kind and polite, even to her Uncle James and to other people whom she did not like very much; and though she was not very clever, for a Princess, she always tried to do her lessons.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	39	advmod	_	_
39	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | gardener |  |  |  |  | always, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | gardener *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | gardener | other people |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | gardener |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** | past | gardener |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | gardener *not said here* | gardener's lessons |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality |

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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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