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title: But with her help Harry managed to wriggle quietly out of his sleeve… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But with her help Harry managed to wriggle quietly out of his sleeves, so that the dragon had only an Eton jacket in his other claw. Who acts: Harry, dragon, Effie. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 74

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But with her help Harry managed to wriggle quietly out of his sleeves, so that the dragon had only an Eton jacket in his other claw.

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**Who acts:** Harry, dragon, Effie · **What happens:** manage, wriggle, have, help · **To what, where:** sleeves, Eton jacket, other claw

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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 (Harry, dragon, Effie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg23661:557`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:6:74
# text = But with her help Harry managed to wriggle quietly out of his sleeves, so that the dragon had only an Eton jacket in his other claw.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	19	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Eton	Eton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past | Harry |  |  |  |  | with Effie's help | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wriggle** | to-infinitive | Harry *not said here* |  |  | Harry's sleeves |  | quietly *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | the dragon | a Eton jacket |  | Harry's other claw |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacket=Patient |
| 4 | **help** |  | Effie |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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