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title: "And what are those fires for?" bellowed George--for Jane was crying… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: "And what are those fires for?" bellowed George--for Jane was crying louder and louder. Who acts: fires, Jane. 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 81

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"And what are those fires for?" bellowed George--for Jane was crying louder and louder.

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**Who acts:** fires, Jane · **What happens:** be, bellow, cry · **To what, where:** fires, George · **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 (fires, Jane), 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:pg23661:8:81
# text = "And what are those fires for?" bellowed George--for Jane was crying louder and louder.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	bellowed	bellow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | that fires |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bellow** | past | that fires | George |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent george=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Jane |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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