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title: Though he had played truant so often, he knew one or two things that… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Though he had played truant so often, he knew one or two things that perhaps you don't know, though you have always been so good and gone to school regularly. Who acts: fire, you. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 141

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Though he had played truant so often, he knew one or two things that perhaps you don't know, though you have always been so good and gone to school regularly.

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**Who acts:** fire, you · **What happens:** play, know, not know, be, go · **To what, where:** one, two things, school

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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 (fire, 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:pg23661:14:141
# text = Though he had played truant so often, he knew one or two things that perhaps you don't know, though you have always been so good and gone to school regularly.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	truant	truant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **play** | past · perfect | fire |  |  |  |  | often, truant *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | past | fire | one or two things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you | two things |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | always, good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  | school |  | regularly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |

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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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