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title: When the Princess had been good all through the week--for, like all… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Princess had been good all through the week--for, like all real, live, nice children, she was sometimes naughty, but never bad--Nurse would allow her to ask her little friends to come on Wednesday morning early and spend the day, because Wednesday is the end of the week in that country. Who
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 18

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When the Princess had been good all through the week--for, like all real, live, nice children, she was sometimes naughty, but never bad--Nurse would allow her to ask her little friends to come on Wednesday morning early and spend the day, because Wednesday is the end of the week in that country.

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**Who acts:** Princess, head, Nurse, Wednesday · **What happens:** be, not be, allow, ask, come, spend · **To what, where:** head, little friends, country, end

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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 (Princess, head, Nurse, Wednesday), 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:pg23661:3:18
# text = When the Princess had been good all through the week--for, like all real, live, nice children, she was sometimes naughty, but never bad--Nurse would allow her to ask her little friends to come on Wednesday morning early and spend the day, because Wednesday is the end of the week in that country.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	parataxis	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	iobj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
53	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	62	det	_	_
62	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the Princess |  |  |  | week | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | head |  |  |  |  | naughty, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **be** |  | head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **allow** | would | Nurse |  | head |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nurse *not said here* |  | head's little friends |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nurse *not said here* |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **spend** | infinitive | Nurse *not said here* |  |  | that country | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | present | Wednesday | the end |  |  | week |  | tree rules |

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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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