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title: He said nothing, but he exchanged a meaningful glance with the drago… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: He said nothing, but he exchanged a meaningful glance with the dragon, and everyone went home to tea. Who acts: uncle, everyone. 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 22

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He said nothing, but he exchanged a meaningful glance with the dragon, and everyone went home to tea.

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**Who acts:** uncle, everyone · **What happens:** say, exchange, go · **To what, where:** nothing, meaningful glance, tea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (uncle, everyone), 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:pg23661:4:22
# text = He said nothing, but he exchanged a meaningful glance with the dragon, and everyone went home to tea.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	exchanged	exchange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	meaningful	meaningful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | uncle | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **exchange** | past | uncle | a meaningful glance |  |  |  | with the dragon | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent glance=Theme with dragon=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | everyone |  |  | tea |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tea=Initial\_Location |

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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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