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title: Effie rubbed and cried--not real crying, but the kind your eye does… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Effie rubbed and cried--not real crying, but the kind your eye does all by itself without your being miserable inside your mind--and then she went to her father to have the thing in her eye taken out. Who acts: Effie, kind eye, thing, your. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, 
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 22

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Effie rubbed and cried--not real crying, but the kind your eye does all by itself without your being miserable inside your mind--and then she went to her father to have the thing in her eye taken out.

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**Who acts:** Effie, kind eye, thing, your · **What happens:** rub, cry, not cry, do, be, go · **To what, where:** mind, thing, eye

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Effie, kind eye, thing, your), 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:pg23661:5:22
# text = Effie rubbed and cried--not real crying, but the kind your eye does all by itself without your being miserable inside your mind--and then she went to her father to have the thing in her eye taken out.
1	Effie	Effie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
22	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
23	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	xcomp	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | Effie |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Effie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Effie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | present | your kind eye |  |  |  |  | by eye | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | your kind eye *not said here* |  |  | your mind |  | miserable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past | Effie |  |  |  | then | to Effie's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **have** | to-infinitive | Effie *not said here* | the thing |  | Effie's eye |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **take out** | participle | the thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **mind** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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