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title: George and Jane had sixpence each--and they spent the whole amount o… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: George and Jane had sixpence each--and they spent the whole amount on a golden rain, which would not light for ever so long, and when it did light went out almost at once, so they had to look at the fireworks in the gardens next door, and at the ones at the Crystal Palace, which were very glorious i
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 7, sentence 34

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George and Jane had sixpence each--and they spent the whole amount on a golden rain, which would not light for ever so long, and when it did light went out almost at once, so they had to look at the fireworks in the gardens next door, and at the ones at the Crystal Palace, which were very glorious indeed.

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**Who acts:** George, golden rain, amount, light, Crystal Palace · **What happens:** have, spend, not light, do, go out, look · **To what, where:** sixpence, whole amount, golden rain, next door

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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 (George, golden rain, amount, light), 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:pg23661:7:34
# text = George and Jane had sixpence each--and they spent the whole amount on a golden rain, which would not light for ever so long, and when it did light went out almost at once, so they had to look at the fireworks in the gardens next door, and at the ones at the Crystal Palace, which were very glorious indeed.
1	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
32	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
50	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
57	at	at	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	Crystal	Crystal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	65	nsubj	_	_
63	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	cop	_	_
64	very	very	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
65	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	conj	_	_
66	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | George and Jane | sixpence  each |  |  |  | at the ones at the Crystal Palace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixpence=Patient |
| 2 | **spend** | past | George | the whole amount |  |  |  | on a golden rain *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent amount=Asset on rain=Goal |
| 3 | **not** **light** | would | a golden rain |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ever=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **do** | past | amount |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go out** | past | light |  |  |  |  | once, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | past | George |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **look** | to-infinitive | George *not said here* | next door |  |  |  | in the gardens; at the fireworks | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at firework=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | the Crystal Palace |  |  |  |  | glorious, indeed *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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