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title: All their relations had colds in their heads, so Jane and George wer… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: All their relations had colds in their heads, so Jane and George were allowed to go out into the garden alone to let off their firework. Who acts: relations, Jane. 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 35

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All their relations had colds in their heads, so Jane and George were allowed to go out into the garden alone to let off their firework.

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**Who acts:** relations, Jane · **What happens:** have, allow, go out, let off · **To what, where:** colds, heads, Jane, garden, firework

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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 (relations, Jane), 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:pg23661:632`): 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:pg23661:7:35
# text = All their relations had colds in their heads, so Jane and George were allowed to go out into the garden alone to let off their firework.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	so	so	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	firework	firework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | fireworks's relations | colds |  | fireworks's heads |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient |
| 2 | **allow** | past · passive |  | Jane and George |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jane and George *not said here* |  |  | the garden |  | alone, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let off** | to-infinitive | Jane and George *not said here* | George's firework |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=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:** 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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