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title: So she covered St. George with the veil, and Harry rubbed off as muc… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: So she covered St. George with the veil, and Harry rubbed off as much as he could of the dragon poison onto St. George's armor, so as to make everything quite safe for him. Who acts: size, Harry. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 53

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So she covered St. George with the veil, and Harry rubbed off as much as he could of the dragon poison onto St. George's armor, so as to make everything quite safe for him.

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**Who acts:** size, Harry · **What happens:** cover, rub off, make · **To what, where:** George, much, everything

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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 (size, Harry), 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:pg23661:6:53
# text = So she covered St. George with the veil, and Harry rubbed off as much as he could of the dragon poison onto St. George's armor, so as to make everything quite safe for him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
33	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	32	obj	_	_
34	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | size |  | George  St. |  |  | with the veil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent george=Destination with veil=Theme |
| 2 | **rub off** | past | Harry | much |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Harry *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |

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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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