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title: What is it that, if I had known as much as you do about, I shouldn't… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: What is it that, if I had known as much as you do about, I shouldn't have lost my hippopotamuses?" Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 100

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What is it that, if I had known as much as you do about, I shouldn't have lost my hippopotamuses?"

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** be, know, do, not lose · **To what, where:** truth, much, hippopotamuses

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg23661:13:100
# text = What is it that, if I had known as much as you do about, I shouldn't have lost my hippopotamuses?"
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hippopotamuses	hippopotamus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | truth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past · perfect | I | much |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | present | you |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **lose** | should · perfect | I | my hippopotamuses |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=Eventuality |

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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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