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title: It is quite a simple sum, as you see: You could do it in a minute be… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: It is quite a simple sum, as you see: You could do it in a minute because you have been to a good school and have taken pains with your lessons; but it was quite otherwise with poor Nigel. Who acts: tide, you. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tr
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 120

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It is quite a simple sum, as you see: You could do it in a minute because you have been to a good school and have taken pains with your lessons; but it was quite otherwise with poor Nigel.

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**Who acts:** tide, you · **What happens:** be, see, do, take · **To what, where:** simple sum, tide, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tide, you), 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:pg23661:10:120
# text = It is quite a simple sum, as you see: You could do it in a minute because you have been to a good school and have taken pains with your lessons; but it was quite otherwise with poor Nigel.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
30	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	6	parataxis	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Nigel	Nigel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | tide | quite simple sum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | could | You | tide |  |  | minute |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme pain=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | tide |  |  |  |  | with poor Nigel; otherwise *property* | tree rules |

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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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