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title: But when the Prince had cut his tooth, rejoicings were not only admi… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the Prince had cut his tooth, rejoicings were not only admissible but correct, and the eleventh of December was proclaimed firework day. Who acts: cut rejoicings. 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 31

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But when the Prince had cut his tooth, rejoicings were not only admissible but correct, and the eleventh of December was proclaimed firework day.

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**Who acts:** cut rejoicings · **What happens:** cut, not be, be, proclaim · **To what, where:** Prince, eleventh

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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 (cut rejoicings), 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:pg23661:7:31
# text = But when the Prince had cut his tooth, rejoicings were not only admissible but correct, and the eleventh of December was proclaimed firework day.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	admissible	admissible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eleventh	eleventh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
25	firework	firework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Prince |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary tooth=Product |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | cut rejoicings |  |  |  |  | admissible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *speech: disagree* |  | cut rejoicings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **proclaim** | past · passive |  | the eleventh of December |  |  | day |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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