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title: We do not like to let such an anniversary go by without some suitabl… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: We do not like to let such an anniversary go by without some suitable testimonial, especially to one who is a stranger in our midst. Who acts: We, anniversary, one. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 105

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We do not like to let such an anniversary go by without some suitable testimonial, especially to one who is a stranger in our midst.

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**Who acts:** We, anniversary, one · **What happens:** not like, let, go, be · **To what, where:** anniversary, stranger, midst

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, anniversary, one), 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:pg23661:4:105
# text = We do not like to let such an anniversary go by without some suitable testimonial, especially to one who is a stranger in our midst.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	testimonial	testimonial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | such anniversary |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | such anniversary *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by some suitable testimonial | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by testimonial=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | one | a stranger |  | our midst |  |  | 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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