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title: Jane said so, but George said, "Oh, don't bother; I'm thinking how t… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Jane said so, but George said, "Oh, don't bother; I'm thinking how to get onto the Pole and try the compass without waking the brute." Who acts: Jane, George. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 56

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Jane said so, but George said, "Oh, don't bother; I'm thinking how to get onto the Pole and try the compass without waking the brute."

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**Who acts:** Jane, George · **What happens:** say, not bother, think, get, try, wake · **To what, where:** Pole, compass, brute · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jane, George), 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:pg23661:8:56
# text = Jane said so, but George said, "Oh, don't bother; I'm thinking how to get onto the Pole and try the compass without waking the brute."
1	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	bother	bother	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	brute	brute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jane |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | George |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **bother** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · progressive | Jane |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the Pole |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme onto pole=Destination |
| 6 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the compass |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compass=Eventuality |
| 7 | **wake** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the brute |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brute=Patient |

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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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