--- title: This master was not like some masters I know: He was very obstinate,… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: This master was not like some masters I know: He was very obstinate, and would not believe his own eyes if they told him anything different from what he had been saying before his eyes spoke. Who acts: master, I, shower, eyes. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/96/) [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/) / 96 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 96 This master was not like some masters I know: He was very obstinate, and would not believe his own eyes if they told him anything different from what he had been saying before his eyes spoke. **Who acts:** master, I, shower, eyes · **What happens:** not be, know, be, not believe, tell, say · **To what, where:** masters, own eyes, anything, shower · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (master, I, shower, eyes), 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:pg23661:14:96 # text = This master was not like some masters I know: He was very obstinate, and would not believe his own eyes if they told him anything different from what he had been saying before his eyes spoke. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 masters master NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 obstinate obstinate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 iobj _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 obj _ _ 28 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 aux _ _ 34 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 before before SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past | this master | | | | | like *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | present | I | some masters *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | shower | | | | | obstinate *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **believe** | would | shower *not said here* | | shower's own eyes | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | eyes *= eye* | anything | shower | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · progressive | shower | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | shower's eyes | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/97/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)