---
title: As you know, there are many St. George's churches, but fortunately t… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: As you know, there are many St. George's churches, but fortunately they took the turning that leads to the right one, and went along in the bright sunlight, feeling very brave and adventurous. Who acts: you, churches, hands, turning. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6,
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 2

# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As you know, there are many St. George's churches, but fortunately they took the turning that leads to the right one, and went along in the bright sunlight, feeling very brave and adventurous.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, churches, hands, turning · **What happens:** know, be, take, lead, go along, feel · **To what, where:** turning, right one, bright sunlight

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (you, churches, hands, turning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg23661:6:2
# text = As you know, there are many St. George's churches, but fortunately they took the turning that leads to the right one, and went along in the bright sunlight, feeling very brave and adventurous.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	turning	turning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	along	along	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	adventurous	adventurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **does** | present | many George  St.'s churches |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | hands *= hand* | the turning |  |  |  | fortunately *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turning=Theme |
| 4 | **lead** | present | the turning |  | the right one |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to one=Patient |
| 5 | **go along** | past | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  | the bright sunlight |  | along *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location |
| 6 | **feel** | gerund | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/1/)
- next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/3/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/6/)