--- title: Then Harry spoke to St. George--but he would not answer; and he call… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Then Harry spoke to St. George--but he would not answer; and he called, but St. George did not seem to hear; and then he actually tried to waken the great dragon-slayer by shaking his marble shoulders. Who acts: Harry, George. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/17/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/) / 17 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 17 Then Harry spoke to St. George--but he would not answer; and he called, but St. George did not seem to hear; and then he actually tried to waken the great dragon-slayer by shaking his marble shoulders. **Who acts:** Harry, George · **What happens:** speak, not answer, call, not seem, hear, try · **To what, where:** George, great dragon slayer, marble shoulders · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harry, George), 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:pg23661:6:17 # text = Then Harry spoke to St. George--but he would not answer; and he called, but St. George did not seem to hear; and then he actually tried to waken the great dragon-slayer by shaking his marble shoulders. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Harry Harry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 6 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:desc _ _ 20 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 actually actually ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 waken waken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 35 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 slayer slayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 39 by by SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Harry | | George St. | | then | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to george=Co-Agent | | 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | would | George | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | past | George | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | George St. | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive | George St. *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **try** | past | George | | | | then | actually *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **waken** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | George *not said here* | the great dragon slayer | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent slayer=Patient | | 8 | **shake** | gerund | George *not said here* | George's marble shoulders | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | 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. 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