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title: If he gets a nice present he will be in a hurry to take it away and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: If he gets a nice present he will be in a hurry to take it away and show it to his friends, and he will fly off and never come back." Who acts: uncle, nice present. 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 64

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If he gets a nice present he will be in a hurry to take it away and show it to his friends, and he will fly off and never come back."

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**Who acts:** uncle, nice present · **What happens:** get, be, take away, show, fly off, not come back · **To what, where:** hurry, present, friends

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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, nice present), 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:pg23661:4:64
# text = If he gets a nice present he will be in a hurry to take it away and show it to his friends, and he will fly off and never come back."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | future | a nice present |  |  | a hurry |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take away** | to-infinitive | uncle *not said here* | present |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | infinitive | uncle *not said here* | present | uncle's friends |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to friend=Recipient |
| 5 | **fly off** | future | uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **come back** | infinitive | uncle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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