--- title: He said: "Friends--fellow citizens--I cannot disguise from myself or… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: He said: "Friends--fellow citizens--I cannot disguise from myself or from you that this purple dragon is a poor penniless exile, a helpless alien in our midst, and, besides, he is a--is no end of a dragon." Who acts: uncle, purple dragon, --. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/4/50/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/4/) / 50 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 50 He said: "Friends--fellow citizens--I cannot disguise from myself or from you that this purple dragon is a poor penniless exile, a helpless alien in our midst, and, besides, he is a--is no end of a dragon." **Who acts:** uncle, purple dragon, -- · **What happens:** say, not disguise, be · **To what, where:** Friends, poor penniless exile, --, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, purple dragon, --), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:4:50 # text = He said: "Friends--fellow citizens--I cannot disguise from myself or from you that this purple dragon is a poor penniless exile, a helpless alien in our midst, and, besides, he is a--is no end of a dragon." 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 _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 -- -- PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 fellow fellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 disguise disguise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obl _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 conj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 21 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 penniless penniless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 exile exile NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 helpless helpless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 alien alien NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 besides besides INTJ UH _ 43 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ SpaceAfter=No 43 -- -- NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 46 det _ _ 46 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | uncle | Friends | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **disguise** *in a quote* | can | uncle | | | | | from uncle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this purple dragon | a poor penniless exile and a helpless alien in our midst | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | uncle | a -- | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a -- | no end | | | | of a dragon | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/4/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/4/51/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/4/)