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title: There were no fireworks that year on Guy Fawkes' Day, because the he… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: There were no fireworks that year on Guy Fawkes' Day, because the heir to the throne was not well. Who acts: fireworks, heir. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 27

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There were no fireworks that year on Guy Fawkes' Day, because the heir to the throne was not well.

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**Who acts:** fireworks, heir · **What happens:** be, not be

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fireworks, heir), 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:pg23661:7:27
# text = There were no fireworks that year on Guy Fawkes' Day, because the heir to the throne was not well.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Guy	Guy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	Fawkes	fawke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no fireworks  year Fawkes's Day |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the heir to the throne |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |

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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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