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title: Even if you know perfectly well that you can't do your lessons, you… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: Even if you know perfectly well that you can't do your lessons, you may as well try, and sometimes you find that by some fortunate accident they really _are_ done. Who acts: you, fortunate accident. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 3, sentence 14

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Even if you know perfectly well that you can't do your lessons, you may as well try, and sometimes you find that by some fortunate accident they really \_are\_ done.

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**Who acts:** you, fortunate accident · **What happens:** know, not do, try, find, do · **To what, where:** lessons

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fortunate accident), 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:pg23661:3:14
# text = Even if you know perfectly well that you can't do your lessons, you may as well try, and sometimes you find that by some fortunate accident they really _are_ done.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
31	really	really	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **do** | can | you | your lessons |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality |
| 3 | **try** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **find** | present | you |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | present · passive | some fortunate accident | lessons *= lesson* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |

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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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