--- title: "WHATEVER--DO--YOU--WANT--HIM--TO--DO--THAT--FOR?" yelled George. — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: "WHATEVER--DO--YOU--WANT--HIM--TO--DO--THAT--FOR?" yelled George. Who acts: YOU, George. 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/pg23661/8/84/) [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/) / 84 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 84 "WHATEVER--DO--YOU--WANT--HIM--TO--DO--THAT--FOR?" yelled George. **Who acts:** YOU, George · **What happens:** do, yell · **To what, where:** DO · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (YOU, George), 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:pg23661:8:84 # text = "WHATEVER--DO--YOU--WANT--HIM--TO--DO--THAT--FOR?" yelled George. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 WHATEVER whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 -- -- PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 DO DO PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 -- -- PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 YOU you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 WANT WANT PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 HIM he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 TO to ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 DO do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 THAT that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 FOR FOR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 21 yelled yell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | YOU | DO | | | | FOR *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | past | George | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/85/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/)