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title: But after that day when the Princess said she meant to marry Tom, th… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 52

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But after that day when the Princess said she meant to marry Tom, the gardener's boy thought it over, and he decided that the best prize in the world would be the Princess, and this was the prize Tom meant to take; and when you are a gardener's son and have decided to marry a Princess, you will find that the more you learn at school the better.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Rotundia, boy, best prize, this, Tom · **What happens:** say, mean, marry, think, decide, be · **To what, where:** Tom, prize, Princess, son, school · **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 (Princess, Rotundia, boy, best prize), 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:pg23661:3:52
# text = But after that day when the Princess said she meant to marry Tom, the gardener's boy thought it over, and he decided that the best prize in the world would be the Princess, and this was the prize Tom meant to take; and when you are a gardener's son and have decided to marry a Princess, you will find that the more you learn at school the better.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	RP	_	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
43	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
49	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	55	advmod	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
51	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	's	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	_
55	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	decided	decide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
65	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
66	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	parataxis	_	_
67	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	71	advmod	_	_
70	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	71	nsubj	_	_
71	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	66	ccomp	_	_
72	at	at	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
73	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	obl	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	71	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | the Princess |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | past | Rotundia |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rotundia *not said here* | Tom |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the gardener's boy | prize |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 5 | **decide** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | would | the best prize in the world | the Princess and the prize |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past | this | the prize |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **mean** | past | Tom | the prize *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is a** | present | you | a gardener's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **decide** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 12 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a Princess |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
| 13 | **find** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 14 | **learn** | present | you |  |  | school |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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