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title: No, never mind about changing your suit; the Royal robes will cover… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: No, never mind about changing your suit; the Royal robes will cover all that up." Who acts: you, Royal robes. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 80

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No, never mind about changing your suit; the Royal robes will cover all that up."

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**Who acts:** you, Royal robes · **What happens:** not mind, change, cover up · **To what, where:** suit, that

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Royal robes), 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:pg23661:1:80
# text = No, never mind about changing your suit; the Royal robes will cover all that up."
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mind	mind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Royal	Royal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **change** | gerund | you *not said here* | your suit |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Patient |
| 3 | **cover up** | future | the Royal robes | that |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Destination |

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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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