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title: This will show you what a prejudiced and ignorant man Edmund's maste… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: This will show you what a prejudiced and ignorant man Edmund's master was--how different from the revered Head of the nice school where your good parents are kind enough to send you. Who acts: This, good parents. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its depende
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 242

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This will show you what a prejudiced and ignorant man Edmund's master was--how different from the revered Head of the nice school where your good parents are kind enough to send you.

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**Who acts:** This, good parents · **What happens:** show, prejudice, be, revere, send · **To what, where:** you, revered Head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (This, good parents), 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:pg23661:14:242
# text = This will show you what a prejudiced and ignorant man Edmund's master was--how different from the revered Head of the nice school where your good parents are kind enough to send you.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	prejudiced	prejudice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	revered	revere	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **show** | future | This |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **prejudice** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the revered Head of the nice school |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **revere** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | your good parents |  |  |  |  | enough, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **send** | to-infinitive | your good parents *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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