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title: You see, he had heard so many wonderful tales from him and had belie… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: You see, he had heard so many wonderful tales from him and had believed them all--and when you believe all a person's stories they ought to believe yours. Who acts: You, shower. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 101

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You see, he had heard so many wonderful tales from him and had believed them all--and when you believe all a person's stories they ought to believe yours.

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**Who acts:** You, shower · **What happens:** see, hear, believe · **To what, where:** many wonderful tales, tales, yours

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, shower), 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:pg23661:14:101
# text = You see, he had heard so many wonderful tales from him and had believed them all--and when you believe all a person's stories they ought to believe yours.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | shower | many wonderful tales |  |  |  | from Help | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tale=Topic from he=Source |
| 3 | **believe** | past · perfect | shower *not said here* | tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **believe** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **believe** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | yours |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer your=Stimulus |

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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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