--- title: I give you advice; take it or leave it--I shan't bother about you an… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: I give you advice; take it or leave it--I shan't bother about you anymore. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/134/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/) / 134 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 134 I give you advice; take it or leave it--I shan't bother about you anymore. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, take, leave, not bother · **To what, where:** advice, you 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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:14:134 # text = I give you advice; take it or leave it--I shan't bother about you anymore. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 sha sha AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 bother bother VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 anymore anymore ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | I | advice | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient advice=Theme | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | | advice | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | | advice | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **not** **bother** | | I | | | | | about you; anymore *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/135/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)