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title: He was really very poorly, so that fireworks would have been in the… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 29

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He was really very poorly, so that fireworks would have been in the worst possible taste, even at Land's End or in the Isle of Man, whilst in Forest Hill, which was the home of Jane and George, anything of the kind was quite out of the question.

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**Who acts:** Guy, Forest Hill, anything · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** worst possible taste, home, Jane, question

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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 (Guy, Forest Hill, anything), 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:pg23661:7:29
# text = He was really very poorly, so that fireworks would have been in the worst possible taste, even at Land's End or in the Isle of Man, whilst in Forest Hill, which was the home of Jane and George, anything of the kind was quite out of the question.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
16	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	End	End	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	54	nsubj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
50	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
51	out	out	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Guy |  |  |  |  | poorly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive | Guy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | the worst possible taste |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Forest Hill | the home |  |  |  | of Jane and George | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | anything | Jane and George *not said here* |  | the question |  |  | 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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