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title: For you are certain to know something if you give for seven days you… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: For you are certain to know something if you give for seven days your whole thought to it, even though it be only the first declension, or the nine-times table, or the dates of the Norman Kings. Who acts: you, thought, your. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10, with it
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 71

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For you are certain to know something if you give for seven days your whole thought to it, even though it be only the first declension, or the nine-times table, or the dates of the Norman Kings.

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**Who acts:** you, thought, your · **What happens:** be, know, give, think · **To what, where:** something, first declension

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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 (you, thought, 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:pg23661:10:71
# text = For you are certain to know something if you give for seven days your whole thought to it, even though it be only the first declension, or the nine-times table, or the dates of the Norman Kings.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	declension	declension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	compound	_	_
34	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Norman	Norman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Kings	King	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  | day |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive | thought | the first declension or the times table |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** |  | your |  |  |  |  | to thought | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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