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title: Then, in the afternoon, when all the little dukes and duchesses and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, in the afternoon, when all the little dukes and duchesses and marquises and countesses had finished their rice pudding and had had their hands and faces washed after it, Nurse would say: "Now, my dears, what would you like to do this afternoon?" just as if she didn't know. Who acts: Nurse, you
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 19

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Then, in the afternoon, when all the little dukes and duchesses and marquises and countesses had finished their rice pudding and had had their hands and faces washed after it, Nurse would say: "Now, my dears, what would you like to do this afternoon?" just as if she didn't know.

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**Who acts:** Nurse, you · **What happens:** finish, have, wash, say, like, do · **To what, where:** little dukes, hands, dears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nurse, you), 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:pg23661:3:19
# text = Then, in the afternoon, when all the little dukes and duchesses and marquises and countesses had finished their rice pudding and had had their hands and faces washed after it, Nurse would say: "Now, my dears, what would you like to do this afternoon?" just as if she didn't know.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dukes	duke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	duchesses	duchess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	marquises	marquis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	countesses	countess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	dears	dear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	47	obj	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	parataxis	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
54	just	just	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
55	as	as	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
56	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
58	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	60	advmod	_	_
60	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive |  | all little dukes and duchesses and marquises and countesses |  |  | then; afternoon |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past · perfect |  | dukes's hands and faces |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **wash** | participle |  |  |  |  | after pudding |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | would | Nurse | my dears |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dear=Topic |
| 5 | **like** *in a quote* | would | you | my dears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | nurse |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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