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title: Our hearts are made of the finest sealskin, just like little fat sea… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Our hearts are made of the finest sealskin, just like little fat sealskin purses--" 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 88

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Our hearts are made of the finest sealskin, just like little fat sealskin purses--"

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**What happens:** make · **To what, where:** hearts

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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: 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:pg23661:8:88
# text = Our hearts are made of the finest sealskin, just like little fat sealskin purses--"
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Our hearts |  |  |  | of the finest sealskin; like little fat sealskin purses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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