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title: And when anyone is a magician, and is also an uncle, and is named Ja… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And when anyone is a magician, and is also an uncle, and is named James as well, you need not expect anything nice from him. Who acts: anyone, you. 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 17

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And when anyone is a magician, and is also an uncle, and is named James as well, you need not expect anything nice from him.

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**Who acts:** anyone, you · **What happens:** be, name, not expect · **To what, where:** magician, uncle, anything

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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 (anyone, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg23661:273`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:4:17
# text = And when anyone is a magician, and is also an uncle, and is named James as well, you need not expect anything nice from him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	need	need	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | anyone | a magician and a uncle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | anyone *not said here* | a uncle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** | present · passive | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **not** **expect** | need | you | anything |  |  |  | from James | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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