--- title: It's not the getting _here_--I see that--it's the getting back again. — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: It's not the getting _here_--I see that--it's the getting back again. Who acts: lot, I. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/) / 41 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 41 It's not the getting \_here\_--I see that--it's the getting back again. **Who acts:** lot, I · **What happens:** not get, see, get back · **To what, where:** that This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:8:41 # text = It's not the getting _here_--I see that--it's the getting back again. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 17 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **get** | present · progressive | lot | | | here | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **see** | present | I | that | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get back** | gerund | | | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/42/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/)