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title: All the years of her life had never held half so much happiness as n… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: All the years of her life had never held half so much happiness as now lived in each of the moments when she held her little baby in her arms. Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 134

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All the years of her life had never held half so much happiness as now lived in each of the moments when she held her little baby in her arms.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** not hold, live, hold · **To what, where:** years, each, little baby, arms

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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:pg23661:9:134
# text = All the years of her life had never held half so much happiness as now lived in each of the moments when she held her little baby in her arms.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	obj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hold** | past · perfect · passive |  | all years of Queen's life |  |  |  | happiness *obl* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme half=Eventuality |
| 2 | **live** | past |  |  |  | each | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in each=Location |
| 3 | **hold** | past | Queen | Queen's little baby |  | Queen's arms |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in arm=Location |

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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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