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title: Did they never teach you that 'we must not ask for all we see'? — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Did they never teach you that 'we must not ask for all we see'? Who acts: Edmund, that, we. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 170

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Did they never teach you that 'we must not ask for all we see'?

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**Who acts:** Edmund, that, we · **What happens:** do, not teach, not ask, see · **To what, where:** you, all

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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 (Edmund, that, we), 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:pg23661:14:170
# text = Did they never teach you that 'we must not ask for all we see'?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obj	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **teach** *speech: other* | present | Edmund |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | must | that | all |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Recipient |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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