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title: Then she said to the Queen: "Your child will have hair as golden as… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she said to the Queen: "Your child will have hair as golden as your crown, eyes as blue as your sapphires. Who acts: witch, child, your. 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 97

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Then she said to the Queen: "Your child will have hair as golden as your crown, eyes as blue as your sapphires.

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**Who acts:** witch, child, your · **What happens:** say, have, crown · **To what, where:** Queen, hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (witch, child, your), 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:pg23661:9:97
# text = Then she said to the Queen: "Your child will have hair as golden as your crown, eyes as blue as your sapphires.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | witch |  | the Queen |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | future | Your child | hair |  |  |  | golden *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **crown** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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